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Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news?

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On 05/04/2013 03:29, John Ladasky wrote:
> I'm revisiting a project that I haven't touched in over a year.  It
> was written in Python 2.6, and executed on 32-bit Ubuntu 10.10.  I
> experienced a 20% performance increase when I used Psyco, because I
> had a computationally-intensive routine which occupied most of my CPU
> cycles, and always received the same data type.  (Multiprocessing
> also helped, and I was using that too.)
>
> I have now migrated to a 64-bit Ubuntu 12.10.1, and Python 3.3.  I
> would rather not revert to my older configuration.  That being said,
> it would appear from my initial reading that 1) Psyco is considered
> obsolete and is no longer maintained, 2) Psyco is being superseded by
> PyPy, 3) PyPy doesn't support Python 3.x, or 64-bit optimizations.
>
> Do I understand all that correctly?
>
> I guess I can live with the 20% slower execution, but sometimes my
> code would run for three solid days...
>
Have you looked at Cython? Not quite the same, but still...

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JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-04-04 19:29 -0700
  Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-04-05 03:39 +0100
    Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-04-05 01:34 -0700
      Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 14:37 -0400
      Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 11:23 +0100
    Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-04-05 01:34 -0700
  Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 19:27 +1100
    Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-04-05 01:39 -0700
      Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 19:49 +1100
      Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 11:32 -0600
        Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-04-05 11:13 -0700
          Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 13:05 -0600
        Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-04-05 11:13 -0700
      Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 10:46 +0100
    Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-04-05 01:39 -0700
      Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? ptb <petertbrady@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 05:18 -0700
  Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Ian Foote <ian@feete.org> - 2013-04-05 13:50 +0100
  Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 11:27 +0100
  Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 08:45 -0700
  Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2013-04-06 21:41 +0200

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