On Sun, 08 Sep 2019 18:17:17 -0000 "Mark @pysoniq" <mark@pysoniq.com> wrote:
Hi, David,
In several other posts here, I have distinguished PysoniQ from the open source projects mentioned. It has much better ease of use and faster published metrics than the other projects mentioned. The faster metrics should not be surprising when technologies like LLVM are cut out of the loop and you translate Python directly to assembly. The translate "directly" is critical for performance.
This kind of statement raises eyebrows. Nowadays compiler backends like LLVM are able to perform extremely potent optimizations (probably much more potent than any niche tool like pysoniq or Cython will ever manage on their own). Stating that the way you achieve good performance is by avoiding LLVM (or another high-level compiler backend such as gcc) and going straight to assembly is extremely peculiar, to say the least. Of course, you may have achieved a major breakthrough on your own and leapfrogged proven compiler technology. But it's reasonable to remain a bit skeptical at this point. Regards Antoine.