The First 15 Years of PyPy – A Personal Retrospective

Re:The First 15 Years of PyPy – A Personal Retrospective by pjmlp on Monday September 10, 2018 @02:43AM (#17949859)

I share the same perception of lack of love from the community regarding JIT compilers, not only PyPy.

I see Julia and JavaScript eventually wining over those that can't be bothered to deal with C for the extra performance step.

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Re:The First 15 Years of PyPy – A Personal Retrospective by kristofferc on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:32AM (#17951659)

The Julia compiler is a little bit different in the sense that it actually compiles ahead of time (it is not a tracing JIT). This takes place just before a method (with known runtime types for the arguments) is executed for the first time. So performance is predictable but on the other hand there is a risk of over specializations.

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Re:The First 15 Years of PyPy – A Personal Retrospective by pjmlp on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:40AM (#17951704)

I know, but that is not the point.

The point is the lack of adoption of JIT runtimes across the Python community at large.

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Re:The First 15 Years of PyPy – A Personal Retrospective by majewsky on Monday September 10, 2018 @04:47AM (#17950367)

I see Go (also) occupying that niche. Maybe that's because of my (cloud technology) bubble, but 90%+ of the interesting new projects are in Go (not just web services or container runtimes, also CLI tools).

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Re:The First 15 Years of PyPy – A Personal Retrospective by pjmlp on Monday September 10, 2018 @04:55AM (#17950394)

Yes, there were a couple of talks at Go UK 2018 about that.

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