29 Dec
2015
29 Dec
'15
12:03 a.m.
Brett Cannon
Ned also neglected to mention his byterun project which is a pure Python implementation of the CPython eval loop: <a href="https://github.com/nedbat/byterun">https://github.com/nedbat/byterun</a>
I would also encourage you to take a look at Numba. It is an LLVM based JIT compiler for Python bytecode, written for hardcore numerical algorithms in Python. It can often achieve the same performance as -O2 in C after a short burn-in while inferring the types of the arguments and variables. Using it is mostly as easy as adding an @numba.jit decorator to the function we want to accelerate. Numba is rapidly becoming what Google's long dead swallow should have been. :-) Sturla