Pyston 0.5.1 Is Making Python Code Even Faster

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Pyston 0.5.1 Is Making Python Code Even Faster

In addition to Dropbox announcing the Lepton image compression algorithm, their Pyston team has announced the v0.5.1 release and it provides more performance improvements for this Python JIT...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Pyston-0.5.1-Released

[Shimon]

Isn't the latest PyPy version in the 0.5.x range too? Surely not a coincidence!

[Shimon]

It's 5.1.1 and that's what I had in mind.

[Shimon]

OK, we'll see what happens to Pyston's versioning scheme. If they diverge, there was nothing to it, otherwise they're trying to ride PyPy's popularity and reputation.

[Shimon]

About 6 months ago I read Dropbox's explanation why it had been necessary to start from scratch instead of contributing to PyPy. Even though there were a few sound technical reasons for not using pypy as is, I wasn't entirely convinced.

[log0]

About 6 months ago I read Dropbox's explanation why it had been necessary to start from scratch instead of contributing to PyPy. Even though there were a few sound technical reasons for not using pypy as is, I wasn't entirely convinced.

I am not entirely convinced by any of those projects. Although I find it entertaining to watch them trying.