On 04/04/2014 12:42 AM, Sturla Molden wrote: > Kevin Modzelewski <kmod at dropbox.com> wrote: > >> Since it's the question that I think most people will inevitably (and >> rightly) ask, why do we think there's a place for Pyston when there's PyPy >> and (previously) Unladen Swallow? > > Have you seen Numba, the Python JIT that integrates with NumPy? > > http://numba.pydata.org Specifically, Numba compiles to LLVM too, and tries to be somewhat general-purpose although it's tuned to numerical code. And their reason for not using PyPy is the same: C extensions. So while their "market segment" is different from yours, the technology may not be. Dag Sverre > > It uses LLVM to compile Python bytecode. When I have tried it I tend to get > speed comparable to -O2 in C for numerical and algorithmic code. > > Here is an example, giving a 150 times speed boost to Python: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21811381/how-to-shove-this-loop-into-numpy/21818591#21818591 > > > Sturla > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/d.s.seljebotn%40astro.uio.no >
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