Pyston v2: Faster Python

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Post by kmod » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 5:42 PM UTC

Pyston v2: Faster Python
blog.pyston.org

Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python

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Post by acrefoot » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 5:47 PM UTC

It's exciting to see this reborn outside of Dropbox!

Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python

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Post by pwinnski » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 6:02 PM UTC

I feel like anybody really searching for speed is using something other than Python. I don't use Python for speed, but for ease-of-use.

It took me some clicks to see it's supposed to be a drop-in replacement, so that's good.

Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python

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Post by RandallBrown » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 6:09 PM UTC

pwinnski wrote: post #3

I feel like anybody really searching for speed is using something other than Python. I don't use Python for speed, but for ease-of-use. It took me some clicks to see it's supposed to be a drop-in replacement, so that's good.

Sure, but there's lots of people already using Python that would probably love some more speed.

Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python

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Post by tgv » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 6:09 PM UTC

pwinnski wrote: post #3

I feel like anybody really searching for speed is using something other than Python. I don't use Python for speed, but for ease-of-use. It took me some clicks to see it's supposed to be a drop-in replacement, so that's good.

I feel you, but then again, Python applications tend to deployed anyway, so a speed boost can be welcome for some. Memory usage looks better, too.

Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python

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Post by qorrect » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 6:19 PM UTC

pwinnski wrote: post #3

I feel like anybody really searching for speed is using something other than Python. I don't use Python for speed, but for ease-of-use. It took me some clicks to see it's supposed to be a drop-in replacement, so that's good.

I use python because of Numpy, Scikit and Tensorflow. I don't know of any other languages with libraries as productive as these, so speeding these apps up is a big win for a lot of people.

Also 20% is huge, I look forward to trying it!

Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python

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Post by nickjj » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 6:20 PM UTC

If anyone is curious, it is available on the Docker Hub but it seems it's a version from 4 years ago based on https://hub.docker.com/r/pyston/pyston/tags.

Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python

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Post by Animats » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 6:23 PM UTC

How about PyPy?

Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python

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Post by EdSchouten » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 6:28 PM UTC

Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, but it looks like the Pyston project isn't getting a lot of updates:

https://github.com/pyston/pyston/commits/v2.0

Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python

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Post by jedberg » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 6:29 PM UTC

I'm not versed in the details of the politics of CPython, but why did this project fork instead of just contributing to CPython? Is CPython really slow in integrating community contributions?

Edit: I read the blog post closer, and found this: "Our plan is to open-source the code in the future, but since compiler projects are expensive and we no longer have benevolent corporate sponsorship, it is currently closed-source while we iron out our business model."