[Python-Dev] FAT Python (lack of) performance

INADA Naoki songofacandy at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 21:21:45 EST 2016


I'm very interested in it.

Ruby 2.2 and PHP 7 are faster than Python 2.
Python 3 is slower than Python 2.
Performance is a attractive feature.  Python 3 lacks it.

How can I help your work?

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2016-01-25 22:51 GMT+01:00 Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de>:
> > - they provide a great infrastructure for optimizing CPython AND
> > extending/experimenting Python as an ecosystem
>
> I hope that these API will create more optimizer projects than just
> fatoptimizer.
>
> For example, I expect more specialized optimizers like numba or
> pythran which are very efficient but more specific (ex: numeric
> computations) than fatoptimizer. Maybe not new optimizers, but just
> glue to existing static compilers (numba, pythran, cython, etc.).
>
>
> > If there's anything I can do, let me know. :)
>
> Oh, they are a lot of things to do! My patches for PEP 509, 510 and
> 511 still need some love (reviews):
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue26058
> http://bugs.python.org/issue26098
> http://bugs.python.org/issue26145
>
> I'm finishing my patch adding ast.Constant. This one is less
> controversal, it has no impact on performance nor the Python
> semantics:
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue26146
>
>
> But these patches are boring C code. You may prefer to work on the
> funny fatoptimizer project which is written in pure Python:
>
> https://fatoptimizer.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
>
> Victor
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