Codon Looks Very Promising For Super-Fast Python Code

[marios]

Wrong. If you compile it to native machine code it can be as fast as every other language.

Codon is a Python compiler.

It stated clearly that it is not pure python. Also, building a compiler, albeit necessary, is not enough. For some languages, extra runtime overhead is necessary, even if you compile it. For example dynamic typing requires some extra state and automatic memory management requires reference counting and/or garbage collection.

[slalomsk8er]

Python code cannot be super-fast. The best it can achieve is avoid being sluggish-slow.

Wrong. If you compile it to native machine code it can be as fast as every other language.

Codon is a Python compiler.

[marios]

Python code cannot be super-fast. The best it can achieve is avoid being sluggish-slow.

[Vorpal]

Never heard of that license before. Is it open source? Can't find it on https://opensource.org/licenses/... Suspicious...

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Codon Looks Very Promising For Super-Fast Python Code

While there is Pyston, PyPy, and various other alternative Python implementations being done in the name of performance, Codon is one of the newer ones and is talking up 10~100x faster performance...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Codon-Faster-Python