Re:Pyston v2: Faster Python
by irrational on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @02:37PM
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Maybe. One of my projects at work is supporting a legacy ColdFusion website that is nearly 20 years old (well, it was started 20 years ago, but has seen updates since). We'd love to move it to something faster, but it is huge and it would literally take years to rewrite it. Other things take priority so it will probably never be rewritten. I imagine there are Python projects in a similar boat.
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Rewriting parts of it will not take years. Most of it can probably be thrown away, replaced by standard components. (only talking from personal experience, sure we had legacy systems running for years).
Re:Pyston v2: Faster Python
by irrational on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @03:03PM
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Unfortunately that wouldn't work with this site. Between the five of us in my group we have nearly 100 years of developer experience. We've talked a lot about if there is anyway we could divest of it a little at a time or replace parts of it, but we really can't.