Re:Is anyone using PyPy for real work?
by alfalfasprout on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:50PM
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Years ago, yes I used it.
Nowadays, to be honest, everything that I need to be fast in Python is largely around numerical code which either calls out to C/C++ (via numpy or some ML library) or I use numba for. And these are either slower w/ PyPi or won't work.
HTTP web servers are notoriously slow in Python (even the fastest ones like falcon) but I found they either didn't play nicely with Pypi or weren't any faster. In large part because if the API does any kind of "heavy lifting" they can't be truly concurrent.
Nowadays, to be honest, everything that I need to be fast in Python is largely around numerical code which either calls out to C/C++ (via numpy or some ML library) or I use numba for. And these are either slower w/ PyPi or won't work.
HTTP web servers are notoriously slow in Python (even the fastest ones like falcon) but I found they either didn't play nicely with Pypi or weren't any faster. In large part because if the API does any kind of "heavy lifting" they can't be truly concurrent.