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| RustScript2 | cinder | |
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| 3 | 42 | |
| 33 | 3,136 | |
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| 0.0 | 9.3 | |
| 7 months ago | 1 day ago | |
| OCaml | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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RustScript2
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November 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I'm working on https://github.com/mkhan45/RustScript_v2. Of course you can tell from the name it's a bit of a joke but I started writing it just to learn OCaml but I made so much progress so quickly and soon I'll implement a few web server builtins so I can rewrite my personal website in it.
cinder
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Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL removal is accepted
They’ve kind of done that with Cinder https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder. Threads and Instagram lie on top of this and it’s essentially a fork of Python 3.10.
I think the problem there is even a company like Meta wants to rest on the shoulders of the giant Python community. It makes sense for Meta to try to get parts of Cinder into Python.
- Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with some interesting tweaks
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Best book on writing an optimizing compiler (inlining, types, abstract interpretation)?
I used to work on the Cinder JIT and can help document any passes you find interesting or confusing.
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Python-based compiler achieves orders-of-magnitude speedups
Have a look at Cinder - https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder - it's Meta's performance oriented fork of CPython that they use to run Instagram (which is a big Django app).
You might enjoy Cinder then. It's based on CPython so it is nearly 100% compatible.
https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder/
Disclaimer: I used to work on it.
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beartype: It has documentation now. It only took two years, my last hair follicle, precious sanity points (SPs), and working with Sphinx. Don't be like @leycec. Go hard on documentation early.
I think Cinder's Static Python, which also performs runtime type checking, is more ambitious. Though it's not production ready yet.
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If there’s gonna be a Python 4.0 one day, what’s a breaking change you’d like to see? Let’s explore the ideas you have that can make Python even better!
Here's a fork that implements that https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder - it might be nice to one day get that up streamed but obviously it'll be controversial and it certainly needs more time to bake. Hopefully at some point we can make it a pip installable extension though.
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Is it time for Python to have a statically-typed, compiled, fast superset?
The other thing that was interesting to me, was the potential of type annotations to help make for a faster, safer experience on the compiler end of things. One example is seen in Meta’s Cinder project, on the docs it explains how typing can be used to reduce the number of steps for the compiler ([cinder/static_python.rst at cinder/3.8 · facebookincubator/cinder · GitHub](https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder/blob/cinder/3.8/CinderDoc/static_python.rst)), making it more effective.
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Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta
Instagram is a huge Django app and unlike all the ML libraries, Django isn't highly optimized low-level code wrapped in Python, at least not by default. That's why Facebook are putting so much work into running a more performant fork of CPython - https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder
What are some alternatives?
faster-cpython - How to make CPython faster.
Pyjion
Pyjion - Pyjion - A JIT for Python based upon CoreCLR
graalpython - A Python 3 implementation built on GraalVM
MonkeyType - A Python library that generates static type annotations by collecting runtime types
FrameworkBenchmarks - Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
Pyston - A faster and highly-compatible implementation of the Python programming language.
Nuitka - Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.
pipx - Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments
PyOxidizer - A modern Python application packaging and distribution tool
Cinder - Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.
xvm - Ecstasy and XVM