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I might have to eat those old words as there is some form of runtime code specialisation being considered for inclusion in CPython. It doesn’t sound like a full
by orf 6y ago
I might have to eat those old words as there is some form of runtime code specialisation being considered for inclusion in CPython. It doesn’t sound like a fully-fledged JIT, but that might be a distinction without a difference.
- ak217 6y agoLink?
- orf 6y agohttps://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/plan.md https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl... And some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24848318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24848318
- ak217 6y agoThanks - Mark Shannon is a core committer, right? So hopefully he has standing to get this done. The plan looks very high level at this point, but it looks like Mark is an expert in interpreter VM and JIT technologies. All I can hope for is that he doesn't get blocked by the "keep cpython simple" obstructionism.
- mrtranscendence 6y agoHe thinks (they think?) the project will need to be funded to the tune of $2M. That seems like a hefty sum to me, though maybe it's doable.
- ak217 6y agoIt's not that hefty once they pitch this improvement to the many wealthy VC-funded companies whose business and data science divisions depend on Python.