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Pyjion
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Python 3.13 Gets a JIT
It exists, was created by microsoft employees, and is referenced in the article: https://www.trypyjion.com/
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Is anyone using PyPy for real work?
I've actually come across and started using Pyjion recently (https://github.com/tonybaloney/pyjion); how does Pypy compare, both in terms of performance and purpose? There seems to be a lot of overlap...
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funAndEasyToUse
Python is capable of doing things at runtime that are really hard to statically compile around, such as monkeypatching methods onto existing objects. You can compile it, but it's complicated. One strategy is to use a JIT that can observe application state at runtime and then invalidate code as it becomes obsoleted by changes, but it's complicated. See pyjion for an example.
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Javascript has Typescript. WHY WE DONT HAVE TYPY !
When I say "Python" I am referring to the standard CPython interpreter which most people use. But there is also PyPy, which includes a Just In Time compile that compiles selected code into machine language on the fly, as needed. pyjion is another JIT compiler that generates machine language on the fly, and you can install it with pip. Or you could work for Facebook and use Cinder. Cython, Nuitka and Pyston are other alternatives.
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How is Golang websocket better than FastAPI websocket?
and if you need more speed you can try https://www.pypy.org/ or https://github.com/tonybaloney/Pyjion or https://www.pyston.org/
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CPython vs PyPy
Finally, there is also Pyjion which based on its website is “A drop-in JIT Compiler for Python 3.10” (https://www.trypyjion.com/). We will be covering it on a separate writeup. See you next time ;-).
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- Create CPython extensions in .NET?
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Instant upvotes
Though some exciting stuff happening over the next few years, Python is getting faster, has been for awhile, and stuff like Pyjion https://www.trypyjion.com/, a drop in C# powered JIT compiler is starting to approach usable. Rust and Python seem to be best buds right now, so more extension libraries in rust, a newer more approachable language than say C/C++ but with a similar speed. Sign me up!
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You think python is slow ?
Pyjion Easy to use, small compiler. Increase performance of our 🐌 CPython.
Pyjion
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Pyjion, a drop-in JIT compiler for Python 3.10 is now v1.0
Looks like it was started at Microsoft, the tonybaloney/Pyjion was forked from microsoft/Pyjion.
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Why Python 4.0 might never arrive, according to its creator
Pyjion is a Microsoft project that adds a JIT leveraging CoreCLR.
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Pyston v2.2: faster and open source
https://github.com/microsoft/Pyjion was a really nice attempt to marry CPython with JIT in a rather generic way, but it was abandoned quickly.
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Cinder: Instagram's performance oriented fork of CPython
There are articles like https://instagram-engineering.com/dismissing-python-garbage-... which seem to confirm some problems. One of the people involved with this Cinder project was an original author of https://github.com/microsoft/Pyjion (it's now being revamped by a new dev.) Dino had deep .NET/CLR implementation experience and had been the lead for IronPython which I think spawned the interest in perf improvements through Cinder. I hope this effort is more successful for him.
What are some alternatives?
Numba - NumPy aware dynamic Python compiler using LLVM
PyPy
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.
Cython - The most widely used Python to C compiler
cinder - Cinder is Meta's internal performance-oriented production version of CPython.
Pyston - A faster and highly-compatible implementation of the Python programming language.
graalpython - A Python 3 implementation built on GraalVM
Stackless Python
PeachPy - x86-64 assembler embedded in Python
hpy - HPy: a better API for Python
pypy - The unofficial GitHub mirror of PyPy (mirrored via https://github.com/mozillazg/job-mirror-hg-repos)