Pyston 0.3 Released For High-Performance Python

Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 24 February 2015 at 07:46 PM EST. 15 Comments
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Version 0.3 of the high-performance Python programming implementation is now available.

Pyston 0.3 is an important release for the project in that it can now self-host in the form of running all internal scripts on Pyston. Additionally, Pyston 0.3 is big news for offering even faster performance.

Pyston 0.3 is the first release that now self-hosts, the Pyston 0.3 release should now outperform CPython, and overall there's more development resources moving forward. There's been a lot of improvements since an open-source project supported by Dropbox.

More details on Pyston 0.3 can be found via their blog announcement.
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