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Project Aims For 5x Increase In Python Performance

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the do-stupid-things-faster-and-with-more-energy dept.

cocoanaut writes "A new project launched by Google's Python engineers could make the popular programming language five times faster. The project, which is called Unladen Swallow, seeks to replace the Python interpreter's virtual machine with a new just-in-time (JIT) compilation engine that is built on LLVM. The first milestone release, which was announced at PyCon, already offers a 15-25% performance increase over the standard CPython implementation. The source code is available from the Google Code web site."

3 of 234 comments (clear)

  1. What about Parrot? by imacpro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Parrot project's VM (mostly oriented towards Perl 6) would be a much better target, especially since work on that dynamic language register-based virtual machine has already been going on for some time, even for Python.

  2. i submitted this story to slashdot before you by karlzt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i submitted this story to slashdot before anyone yesterday

  3. i submitted this story yesterday but... by karlzt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i submitted this story yesterday but obviously i didn't do it right