Re:What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optpa...
by __d on Sunday July 30, 2023 @09:30PM
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I'm sure skilled volunteers would be very welcome.
There are numerous active, moderately serious efforts to both optimize and/or JIT Python bytecode. I think AOT compilation is mostly out-of-scope for 100% compatibility, but again, there's lots of different efforts to compile either subset languages or subsets of programs.
"Kicking and screaming" suggests some reluctance to embrace this, but I think that's probably unfair: it's just hard.
There are numerous active, moderately serious efforts to both optimize and/or JIT Python bytecode. I think AOT compilation is mostly out-of-scope for 100% compatibility, but again, there's lots of different efforts to compile either subset languages or subsets of programs.
"Kicking and screaming" suggests some reluctance to embrace this, but I think that's probably unfair: it's just hard.