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it has a GIL; it supports all pure python packages; it has decent support for packages with compiled code, particularly the more popular ones pypy is used in s
by frontalier 2y ago
it has a GIL; it supports all pure python packages; it has decent support for packages with compiled code, particularly the more popular ones
pypy is used in some interesting places; at some point development was sponsored by a sports betting arbitrage company; you can research a bit more starting from https://pypy.org/pypy-sponsors.html https://pypy.org/pypy-sponsors.html and reading the links from https://pypy.org/categories/sponsors.html https://pypy.org/categories/sponsors.html
- amelius 2y agoThanks. One more question, I see that PyPy supports the CPython C API, so why aren't all compiled packages automatically supported?
- frontalier 2y agoi don't know enough to properly answer this take a look at: https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/cpython_differences.html#c-api-differences https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/cpython_differences.html#c-ap...