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Maybe this is a dumb question but why not just work on making CPython faster? Edit: I guess this provides insights: http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/a
by va_coder 15y ago
Maybe this is a dumb question but why not just work on making CPython faster?
Edit: I guess this provides insights:
http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/architecture.html http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/architecture.html
- kingkilr 15y agoI wish I could find the video the talk where we explained this in great detail, but basically: it's hard, it's been tried and failed (notably by Armin Rigo, one of the leads of PyPy). Adding a new GC to CPython is insanely hard, and manually writing a JIT for Python even moreso.
- riobard 15y agoUnladen Swallow seems to indicate that making CPython substantially faster in the general way is not feasible as of now.