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   Mypyc: Mypy to Python C Extension Compiler(github.com)

   2 points by pddubs 8y ago|0 comments
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   by pddubs 8y ago

   "Objects are a poor man's closures" Yea but don't forget that closures are a poor man's objects!
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   by pddubs 8y ago

   > you look up local variables in hash tables every time they are referenced. This is not what Python does: It maps variable names to integer indices during compilation to bytecode, and the bytecode just takes those embedded constant ind
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   by pddubs 8y ago

   You could just use threads here too - CPython releases the GIL during IO. from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor with ThreadPoolExecutor as executor: executor.map(function, sequence)
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   by pddubs 9y ago

   I think mypy can be considered the canonical type checker for python, Guido van Rossum works on that project. It uses python 3.6 type annotations fully as far as I know.