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Re:Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock by sandGorgon on Monday August 14, 2017 @11:34AM (#15009402)
+1 on this - what is more important for me is some kind of Numba LLVM jit to automatically optimize hotspots : kind of like the JVM hotspot compiler.

Numba already does some of this.

Additionally, I cannot help but wonder if the answer to these problems has been the JVM all along. Especially with JVM 9 and the Truffle framework - https://github.com/securesystemslab/zippy

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Re:Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock by rbjorklin on Monday August 14, 2017 @12:38PM (#15010036)
I was just about to mention Graal & Truffle when I saw your post! I wasn't aware of ZipPy but it looks promising! Java 9 will provide a proper interface for Graal through JVMCI and is only 37 days away from GA [1]. With Graal supposedly only months away from GA [2], ZipPy may very well prove to be the future of high performance Python.

[1] http://www.java9countdown.xyz/ [2] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/polyglot-jvm-graal (see roughly 42:00 - 47:00)

EDIT: Wording.

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