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Re:Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython by crazypython on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @09:42PM (#27045154)
Python has a lot of crazy metaprogramming capabilities. Ability to inspect stacks, override import, and more...

The ones they removed are not commonly used at all.

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Re:Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython by dehrmann on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:54AM (#27046661)
I used to work on a project the used gevent. I'd almost describe it as monkey-patched async io. It's scary-clever.

Maybe there could be a subset of Python that removes the hyper dynamic parts so it can be compiled to something faster. Maybe I'm just describing Go.

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Re:Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython by kingmaker on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @03:26AM (#27047128)
> Maybe there could be a subset of Python that removes the hyper dynamic parts so it can be compiled to something faster.

What you’re describing is essentially Static Python (mentioned in the readme)

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Re:Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython by nitrogen on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:00PM (#27045300)
Is inspecting stacks used for logging backtraces during instrumentation?
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Re:Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:39AM (#27051306)
I’ve gotten some great use out of it, personally.
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