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by vgnet 15y ago
Great video linked in the article (the author's PyCon keynote about PyPy).
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How the PyPy JIT works - PyCon 2012 [video](youtube.com)
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Why PyPy by example - PyCon 2012 [video](youtube.com)
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by vgnet 15y ago
An email thread started by the author gives some more information on targets and characteristics: https://groups.google.com/group/numpy/t/ad48cbce6002da9e
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Numba - A NumPy aware (LLVM-based) optimizing compiler for Python(github.com)
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Shelling Out Sucks(julialang.org)
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by vgnet 15y ago
AFAIUI, what you're missing is that PyPy can (and often does) interface directly to C libraries, from RPython. So the prospect of re-implementing those specialized codebases isn't a real issue: only the CPython-API based wrappers would need
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by vgnet 15y ago
It suggests that there aren't many production users, true. But it does prove that there are some.
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by vgnet 15y ago
Yes, there are. Recently Quora announced it was running on PyPy[1]. Some other disclosures were made (a Django project[2], LWN internal processing[3], tweets about speedups in production, etc.), but the PyPy team is thinking about officiall
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by vgnet 15y ago
> I remember that GSoC! Any idea as to what happened to it, > if it was scrapped, or whatever? I know it made a lot of progress in Cython-land (updates at http://rguillebert.blogspot.com/ ) but no real overview or high level status
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by vgnet 15y ago
It's "real" support, using your criteria. However, it's slower in PyPy than in CPython and than what the same thing based on ctypes would be on PyPy. If there's a pure-Python version of the C extension, it might be faster on PyPy than the C
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by vgnet 15y ago
PyPy also has a plan to get rid of the GIL: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/06/global-interpreter-lock...
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by vgnet 16y ago
I hope PyPy pings all those sponsors. As a wise lady once said, 'connections never hurt'.