On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 10:14 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
More broadly, the current lack of perceived commercial incentives for large corporations to invest millions in offering a faster default Python runtime, the way they have for the other languages you mentioned in your initial post :)
sure, though there have been a few high profile (failed?) efforts, by Google and DropBox, yes? Unladen Swallow was one -- not sure of the code name for the other. Turns out it's really hard :-) And, of course, PyPy is one such successful effort :-) And to someone's point, IIUC, PyPy has been putting a lot of effort into C-API compatibility, to the point where it can run numpy: https://pypy.org/compat.html Who knows -- maybe we will all be running PyPy some day :-) -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker@noaa.gov