Re: [pypy-dev] Short discussion about pypy overview

2020-09-30 Thread Matti Picus
Top posting to avoid too much scrolling. PyPy has two parts that work together: a byte code interpreter like CPython's, and a JIT. The difference is that the interpreter has an additional layer. All functions and loops (for simplicity, let's stick with those) are traced, and the tracer knows th

Re: [pypy-dev] Short discussion about pypy overview

2020-09-30 Thread Matti Picus
On 9/30/20 2:15 AM, Clack, Trevor wrote: Hello, I'm working on giving a presentation to a high performance computing community on pypy. I've got a good deal of content developed except for a high level overview of how pypy in fact works. Several days of YouTube, searching stack overflow, and s

[pypy-dev] Short discussion about pypy overview

2020-09-30 Thread Clack, Trevor
Hello, I'm working on giving a presentation to a high performance computing community on pypy. I've got a good deal of content developed except for a high level overview of how pypy in fact works. Several days of YouTube, searching stack overflow, and searching the docs haven't clarified much. I