[Python-ideas] Bytecode JIT

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> But that's still a hard problem. Or at very least, it's decidedly
>> non-trivial, and the costs are significant, so the net benefits aren't
>> proven.
>
> In fairness, they are proven for other languages, and they certainly
> worked for things like Psyco. So this isn't completely pie-in-the-sky
> dreaming.

Yeah. It's the realm of "let's put in some solid research, then do
some proof of concept work, and maybe it'll be worth going ahead with"
- it's not "Python should be able to optimize this away".

ChrisA