Python 3 in 2016

Re:Python 3 in 2016 by dagw on Thursday February 18, 2016 @06:14AM (#11125013)

There is also pyston, which is a 'competing' LLVM backed JIT that Dropbox is working on. Guido also happens to be working at Dropbox, but I don't know if he's directly involved with pyston or not.

AFAIK, many people thought Python 3 would be based on PyPy too

Don't think so. Some people hoped that Python 3 might be based on Unladen Swallow, which was a different Python JIT that Guido was working on while at Google, but that project never really got off the ground and Google seemed to lose interest in it.

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Re:Python 3 in 2016 by chucksmash on Thursday February 18, 2016 @09:17AM (#11125846)

>Guido also happens to be working at Dropbox, but I don't know if he's directly involved with pyston or not.

With the proviso that a lot can change in two years, here's a relevant comment from the Dropbox Pyston announcement [1]:

"Guido's advice has been extremely helpful, but so far we haven't been able to get any code from him"

[1]: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2014/04/introducing-pyston-an...

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Re:Python 3 in 2016 by throw12873 on Thursday February 18, 2016 @06:25AM (#11125048)

Why do people always give a single person all the credit? I don't think Guido was ever really involved in Unladen Swallow or that he has any particular interest in JIT compilers.

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Re:Python 3 in 2016 by dagw on Thursday February 18, 2016 @06:27AM (#11125054)

I don't think I gave him all the credit. We where talking about Guido and I mentioned a relevant project I thought (perhaps erroneously) that used to work on.

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