On 2/17/17 10:37 PM, jmh530 wrote:
On Friday, 17 February 2017 at 21:01:33 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
This is a common misconception. LLVM as AoT optimizing compiler is
great, but for the JIT compiler it's actually far too slow at codegen
to be a sensible choice.
I don't know how big of a misconception it is. The Dropbox effort on
Pyston (LLVM JIT for Python) just recently shut down and nobody
expressed a lot of surprise in the HN comments.
It might be that HN just in general are pessimistic ;)
w.r.t Pyston I've seen it coming since the very first blog post that
described their approach to the problem. However I've seen lots of folks
being quite enthusiastic about that effort.
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Dmitry Olshansky
