Making Python Fast - PyPy and Unladen Swallow [slides]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/35240506/Making-Python-Fast-PyPy-and-Unladen-Swallow

by twampss • 16 years ago

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kroger• 16 years ago

Here's the video: http://blip.tv/file/3871726

kingkilr• 16 years ago

A small note, these slides are the ones as delivered at PyOhio (which was also recorded), which are slightly updated from the ChiPy talk.

avar• 16 years ago

How is Unladen Swallow doing anyway? I've had the impression that the project is stalled, their Subversion has been mostly stalled this year: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/source/list

hartror• 16 years ago

They're merging into CPython 3K right now. http://groups.google.com/group/unladen-swallow/browse_thread...

buster• 16 years ago

It always amazed me how a python implementation in python can be so much faster then the original python implementation in C. I didn't take a deep look at pypy, it's sounds like magic :P

zsouthboy• 16 years ago

It's hard to describe exactly what PyPy does, but it's more of a JIT / interpreter generator. You write a language using RPython (which is more static than regular python), and PyPy makes a VM for it, or can turn it into C, or CIL, or... Python on PyPy is the same way.

It makes experimenting with new ideas and languages very easy, and (IMO) that is the primary reason for PyPy's existence; faster Python execution is a side benefit.

FraaJad• 16 years ago

They use a subset of python called RPython for implementing pypy.

reiddraper• 16 years ago

pypy and pypi, it took me the longest time to remember which is which

Making Python Fast - PyPy and Unladen Swallow [slides]

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