Pyston v2 Released As ~20% Faster Than Python 3.8

[RahulSundaram]

Why not go all the way ? Use plain English and tell Siri what you need.

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[ed31337]

So, can this be used to speed up Gentoo's emerge/portage tools?

[Setif]

Intel Python.

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

Can we get a phoronix benchmark comparing performance of this vs nodejs_binary/ nim / golang /rust /crystal / [python+rust=compiled binary] also? Can we have a PNN shootout ?

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[NateHubbard]

What's the point ?
If you need speed, why are you fumbling around with Python ?
And why should punny 20% matter ?

I fail to see anything punny about that.

[intelfx]

Apparently this v2 of Pyston is now proprietary:

Availability
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Our plan is to open-source the code in the future, but since compiler projects are expensive and we no longer have benevolent corporate sponsorship, it is currently closed-source while we iron out our business model.

[FireBurn]

So, can this be used to speed up Gentoo's emerge/portage tools?

Seems unlikely, Paludis which is written in C isn't really faster than emerge as far as I'm aware

[Brane215]

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You have wrong version of interpreter installed.

[mb_q]

To be fair, Python (also JS, Ruby, Perl and similar languages) are inherently slow, not because they are interpreted, but because basically their only data structure is a hash-map tree, usually string-indexed. One can thoroughly optimise the code and translate into a native one, but all these hash maps will still lag behind.

This is also fundamental, like one cannot have arbitrary programs with proved defined behaviour everywhere and no hash maps or bounds checking, at least not without a strong-AI compiler.

What's worse, one can programme this way in every language, and sadly many Python-grown people are doing exactly this in C++.

[Brane215]

What's worse, one can programme this way in every language, and sadly many Python-grown people are doing exactly this in C++.

If it wouldn't make stupid small changes every 15 minutes that make many apps, built on this crap, fail, Python could be an ideal modern-day replacement tool.
That's what it was made for.
To be make_believe toy-story language one has handy for nice one-liners and short scripts.