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A comment on Pyston 0.3: Self-hosting Sufficiency.

Re:Pyston 0.3: Self-hosting Sufficiency by montecarl on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @05:44PM (#9104069)
Is it expected that Pyston play well with numpy/scipy? This is the biggest barrier that I see towards adoption of PyPy for numerical computing. If Pyston can work with numpy and scipy then it would be a huge accomplishment.
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Re:Pyston 0.3: Self-hosting Sufficiency by ngoldbaum on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @06:14PM (#9104222)
Their focus is on getting the dropbox application working under pyston. It would probably take contributions from someone outside of dropbox to make this a reality. Presumably it will be easier on pyston than with pypy since pyston has designed in better compatibility with the CPython C API.
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Re:Pyston 0.3: Self-hosting Sufficiency by dagw on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @04:35AM (#9106008)
If speeding up numpy/scipy code is important to you (and it's certainly important to me), then numba is probably the project on the horizon to follow.
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