[Python-Dev] A new JIT compiler for a faster CPython?

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

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> However, it requires that the JIT compiler knows about a lot of
> optimisations. PyPy's JIT is full of those. It's not the fact that it has a
> JIT compiler at all that makes it fast and not the fact that they compile
> Python to machine code, it's the fact that they came up with a huge bunch
> of specialisations that makes lots of code patterns fast once it detected
> them. LLVM (or any other low-level JIT compiler) won't help at all with
> that.
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> Stefan
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Very good point Stefan

I would just like to add that a lot of those also require changes in the
object model which might render changes in CPython C API (like the
introduction of maps). Certainly you can't keep the current C structures,
which will already break some code.

Cheers,
fijal
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