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There have been many similar talks in the past decades. At some point Unladen Swallow was presented as "Google's project" (which is quite exaggerated). It look
by aztec100 5y ago
There have been many similar talks in the past decades. At some point Unladen Swallow was presented as "Google's project" (which is quite exaggerated).
It looks more like Microsoft has JIT envy now that Instagram and others have open sourced (quite restricted) JIT projects and has to show presence again.
I think every CPython JIT project will be full of corner cases in both performance and behavior, so it will add to the growing database of weird Python behavior that users have to memorize.
- pjmlp 5y agoIndeed, it all boils down to the way Python community doesn't embrace such projects. Usually Python's high dynamism comes into the picture as main reason, however Smalltalk and SELF are just as dynamic, you can change the whole image at any given point in execution. In Smalltalk it suffices to send a become: message to change the complete meaning of an object, and references to it, across the whole image.