[Python-Dev] Speeding up CPython 5-10%

[Nick Coghlan]

On 3 February 2016 at 03:52, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> Fifth, if we manage to show that a C API can easily be added to CPython to
> make a JIT something that can simply be plugged in and be useful, then we
> will also have a basic JIT framework for people to use. As I said, our use
> of CoreCLR is just for ease of development. There is no reason we couldn't
> use ChakraCore, v8, LLVM, etc. But since all of these JIT compilers would
> need to know how to handle CPython bytecode, we have tried to design a
> framework where JIT compilers just need a wrapper to handle code emission
> and our framework that we are building will handle driving the code emission
> (e.g., the wrapper needs to know how to emit add_integer(), but our
> framework handles when to have to do that).

That could also be really interesting in the context of pymetabiosis
[1] if it meant that PyPy could still at least partially JIT the
Python code running on the CPython side of the boundary.

Cheers,
Nick.

[1] https://github.com/rguillebert/pymetabiosis


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