[pypy-dev] How's the JIT coming along?

[Lenard Lindstrom]

Gary Robinson wrote:
>> If i might ask - what are the use cases you are thinking about when 
>> talking about the JIT
>> (and/or the JIT generator?).
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> Numerical computing. I have a lot of floating point arithmetic. I was also going to mention the function calling overhead that I see was already discussed (yesterday) in this thread!
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I would say that Python function calls are not the only calls to 
consider. At some point the ctypes module will need porting to PyPy. A 
JIT could remove the overhead of libffi.

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Lenard Lindstrom
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