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Pyston v2: Faster Python
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Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python
#12I'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-sour…
They intend to monetise it.
Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python
#13I'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-sour…
As far as I know CPython is quite welcoming.
However, per the blog post, this version of Pyston is closed source. So CPython won't be interested, and many others won't be interested either.
Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python
#14I'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-sour…
They intend to monetise it.
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Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python
#15I 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.
Maybe. One of my projects at work is supporting a legacy ColdFusion website that is nearly 20 years old (well, it was started 20 years ago, but has seen updates since). We'd love to move it to something faster, but it is huge and it would literally take years to rewrite it. Other things take priority so it will probably never be rewritten. I imagine there are Python projects in a similar boat.
Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python
#16Not 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
Project says: A faster and highly-compatible implementation of the Python programming language. The code here is out of date, please follow our blog
Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python
#17I'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-sour…
As far as I know CPython is quite welcoming. However, per the blog post, this version of Pyston is closed source. So CPython won't be interested, and many others won't be interested either.
Python is a welcoming community, but they are decidedly not welcoming of contributions that significantly increase the complexity of the CPython reference implementation.
This has been discussed extensively: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11125769
Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python
#18I 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!
The 20% speed up looked like it was for flask and Django. In their benchmarks PyTorch did not have a speed increase.
Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python
#1920% isn't nothing... but is it really worth switching to a non-standard, closed-source version of the interpreter?
Re: Pyston v2: Faster Python
#2020% isn't nothing... but is it really worth switching to a non-standard, closed-source version of the interpreter?
Well it's a drop in replacement, so you can always just go back to CPython.