Tim Roberts wrote:
Luis M. González <luis...@gmail.com> wrote:
This is a new project started by two Google engineers to speed up
python:
http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/
I read this with a skeptical eye, but they have some very interesting ideas
here. IronPython has certainly shown that Python can be successfully
implemented in a JIT compiled VM in a performant way, but it has issues
running C extension modules.
My little experience with IronPython is that its raw compute speed is actually
faster on my machine than CPython (test.pystone is 50% faster in ironpython),
but:
- it takes a very long time to start up (almost 5 seconds)
- I/O and networking (sockets) is slower
To compare, Jython starts in about half a second on my machine, which makes it
usable to run short scripts for instance. (Unfortunately its raw compute speed
is slower than CPython: test.pystone runs at half the speed).
I hope 'unladen swallow' won't suffer from a long startup time and has decent
I/O speed!
I'll be curious to see where this project goes.
Me too.
Although CPython has always been plenty fast for me :)
--irmen
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