Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood
by masklinn on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @04:51PM
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Having an FFI is not relevant, Pypy has an excellent FFI already[0].
You can't interface with the existing SciPy ecosystem which expects the CPython API, which is the reason why pypy doesn't matter in scientific computing.
You can't interface with the existing SciPy ecosystem which expects the CPython API, which is the reason why pypy doesn't matter in scientific computing.
[0] inspired by LuaJIT and usable from both CPython and PyPy: https://cffi.readthedocs.org/en/release-0.8/