S6: A standalone JIT compiler library for CPython

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  • s6

  • awesome-python-compilers

    Retrospective of Python compilation efforts

    - Nuitka (Ahead of time, IIRC)

    At this point we should build a "Awesome Python Compilers" repo ... oh wait, it obviously already exists: https://github.com/pfalcon/awesome-python-compilers

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  • pythran

    Ahead of Time compiler for numeric kernels

    In someone lands here seeking a maintained compiler for Python, there's a lot, on top of my head:

    - Pythran (https://pythran.readthedocs.io) (ahead of time compiler)

  • Pytorch

    Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration

    Do any of these JITs/compilers help with machine learning model building? (Mentioned explicitly in the s6 repo)

    e.g. PyPy doesn't work with PyTorch https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/17835

  • CPython

    The Python programming language

    I like Julia, but I'm not sure it has enough investment to really dethrone Python.

    I know it's not the perfect metric, but when evaluating the livelihood of a language I like to look at the reference implementation commit frequencies.

    In the past week CPython had 40 commits to it's repo: https://github.com/python/cpython/graphs/commit-activity

    Julia had 2:

  • julia

    The Julia Programming Language

    https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/graphs/commit-activity

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    V8 148:

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