I'd love to hear more about what workloads you're targeting and how you came up with the anticipated numbers for the improvements. For comparison, our new jit provides a single-digit-percentage speedup on our django and flask benchmarks.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 9:03 AM Mark Shannon <m...@hotpy.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > CPython is slow. We all know that, yet little is done to fix it. > > I'd like to change that. > I have a plan to speed up CPython by a factor of five over the next few > years. But it needs funding. > > I am aware that there have been several promised speed ups in the past > that have failed. You might wonder why this is different. > > Here are three reasons: > 1. I already have working code for the first stage. > 2. I'm not promising a silver bullet. I recognize that this is a > substantial amount of work and needs funding. > 3. I have extensive experience in VM implementation, not to mention a > PhD in the subject. > > My ideas for possible funding, as well as the actual plan of > development, can be found here: > > https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython > > I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. > > Cheers, > Mark. > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/RDXLCH22T2EZDRCBM6ZYYIUTBWQVVVWH/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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