Pyston — a new Python 2.7 implementation

Posted Apr 4, 2014 15:14 UTC (Fri) by torquay (guest, #92428)
Parent article: Pyston — a new Python 2.7 implementation

Obviously Pyston is not the same as the often-used PyPy JIT compiler for Python, so a relevant question would be: why should the LLVM-based approach produce code that is comparable to, say, writing inner loops directly in C++ ? Speed mainly matters for heavy number crunching, and we already have nice C++ abstraction libraries such as Armadillo for that (which has Python wrappers).