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faster-cpython
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Faster CPython at PyCon, part two
It is unclear to me whether Python 3.12 will receive significant improvements. Based on the information from https://github.com/faster-cpython/benchmarking-public, it appears that there may be a 2% performance enhancement. Is this the anticipated result, or are there additional developments awaiting merger?
Initially, the "Shannon Plan" (https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl...) aimed for a 50% improvement with each release. Has this goal been deemed unattainable, or are there adjustments being made to the plan?
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Python-based compiler achieves orders-of-magnitude speedups
Yes, that's the JIT part of the plan. Sections of code will be compiled, "at runtime". Those sections of compiled code will be tied together with interpreted code. It will be somewhere between rare to impossible to have a fully compiled program, without interpreter glue.
- Faster-Cpython Plan.md
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A Team at Microsoft is Helping Make Python Faster
see: https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/plan.md
- Implementation plan for speeding up CPython
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Does Python plan to add JIT or get rid of the GIL?
Yes, the Shannon plan, which is actively being worked on by a team headed by Guido, includes JIT work in stages 3 and 4
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Python 3.11 is 25% faster than 3.10 on average
The goal with faster cpython is for small compounding improvements with each point release[0]. So in the end it should be much more than a tiny improvement.
[0] https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl...
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Python 3.11 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Fantastic
The Shannon Plan. Announced by Guido at the 2021 Python Language summit, funded by Microsoft.
Well, good news then, it's in the planning!
- Why hasn't Python compiled/JIT/AHT projects gained mainstream traction?
ideas
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Type information for faster Python C extensions
Lower latency native calls in Python would be extremely useful, thank you for your work! Is the following GitHub issue the right place to monitor progress? https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/546
I'm open to doing some benchmarking. Several of my libraries have pure CPython bindings (StringZilla, UCall, SimSIMD), and all perform low-latency SIMD-accelerated ops, so might be a good testing ground :)
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How Many Lines of C It Takes to Execute a and B in Python?
Recent CPython development has been towards optimizations and addressing use cases that benefit from optimizations, some coming from the faster CPython initiative. You might just get your JIT[1].
[1] https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/wiki/Workflow-for-3....
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GIL removal and the Faster CPython project
The faster-cpython folks seem to be working towards a JIT (https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/tree/main/3.13) and both pyston and cinder have JITs. So I don't think anyone has ruled one out.
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Our Plan for Python 3.13
faster-cpython team has done a lot of work to experiment on it: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/485#issuecomm...
It kind of sounds like migration to register based is a foregone conclusion, but it's not very clear to me.
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Faster CPython at PyCon, part two
lots of big ideas are still remaining to be done. One example is the register based interpreter, see https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/485
A previous plan called for the beginning of a JIT in 3.12, seen as "Trace optimized interpreter" here: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/wiki/Workflow-for-3....
- EdgeDB – A graph-relational database built on top of Postgres
- Python 3.12 Nogil Benchmark
What are some alternatives?
cinder - Cinder is Meta's internal performance-oriented production version of CPython.
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.
pyenv-virtualenv - a pyenv plugin to manage virtualenv (a.k.a. python-virtualenv)
Pyjion - Pyjion - A JIT for Python based upon CoreCLR
jax-md - Differentiable, Hardware Accelerated, Molecular Dynamics [Moved to: https://github.com/jax-md/jax-md]
Pyston - A faster and highly-compatible implementation of the Python programming language.
jnumpy - Writing Python C extensions in Julia within 5 minutes.
chruby - Changes the current Ruby
nogil - Multithreaded Python without the GIL
sbcl - Mirror of Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)'s official repository