A new port for PyPy 1.9 is available [1]:
http://tratt.net/laurie/src/obsd/ports/pypy.tar.gz
"PyPy is a fast, compliant alternative implementation of the Python language
(equivalent to CPython 2.7.2)." For "pure" Python 2.7 programs, PyPy speeds
up execution by a factor of 5.5 on average [2].
Unfortunately, PyPy's distribution and installation mechanism is currently
rather non-standard; to make the problem tractable, the package installs into
$PREFIX/pypy-${V}.
To build PyPy, you will need a fair bit of RAM (8Gb is definitely safe; 6Gb
is probably safe). Once built, PyPy often consumes less memory than CPython.
This is amd64 only; bootstrapping i386 would be tricky and I don't have
an i386 box.
Comments and questions welcome!
Laurie
[1] Track it on git here:
https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/tree/master/lang/pypy
[2] See http://speed.pypy.org/
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