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Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations

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In a message of Sun, 21 Jun 2015 10:29:32 +0100, BartC writes:
>It also puts in a good dig at PyPy by including one benchmark where it 
>is 6 times as slow as CPython!
>
>It's not clear why it's particularly useful for astrophysics.
>
>-- 
>Bartc

It's not that good a dig, as they say that it took less than 1 second
to run most of their benchmarks, which mostly means that the PyPy JIT
won't have started to run anyway.  One can argue that HOPE isn't
actually a method JIT at all -- or if it is one, then so is Cython.

Laura

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HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-21 01:29 +0100
  Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-06-21 10:29 +0100
    Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-21 15:43 +0200
  Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations Laurent Pointal <laurent.pointal@free.fr> - 2015-06-23 18:53 +0200
    Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-06-26 11:32 -0600
    Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2015-06-28 09:31 +0200
      Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-06-29 00:19 -0700

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