On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > PyPy is, well, PyPy is amazing, if you have the hardware to run it. It is > an optimizing Python JIT compiler, and it can consistently demonstrate > speeds of about 10 times the speed of CPython, which puts it in the same > ballpark as native code generated by Java compilers. For some (admittedly > artificially narrow) tasks it can beat optimized C code. It's fast enough > for real time video processing, depending on the algorithm used. > > While PyPy is still a work in progress, and is not anywhere near as > mature as (say) gcc or clang, it should be considered production-ready.
That's all very well, but unless I have my facts badly wrong, PyPy is only compatible with Python 2 - right? I'd much rather have full Unicode support etc etc etc than the coolness of Python-implemented-in-Python, even with a significant performance boost. > I expect that, within the decade, PyPy will become "the" standard Python > compiler and CPython will be relegated to "merely" the reference > implementation. Assuming it manages to catch up with Py3, which a decade makes entirely possible, this I can well believe. And while we're sounding all hopeful, maybe Python will be on popularity par with every other P in the classic LAMP stack. *That* would be a Good Thing. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
