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JIT.
JIT can be faster than a static compiler if it takes advantage of runtime feedback, but that's not the case here: > While Codon does offer a JIT decorator similar to Numba's, Codon is in general an ahead-of-time compiler that compiles end-to-end programs to native code.
Ugly, confusing naming choices: ``@par`` instead of ``@parallel``.
Reality-check: Why do you think type hints and type checkers like mypy and pyright take such a long time to get going and even they are not there yet? If this was all so easy with just ignoring some obscure rarely used features then mypy would work with essentially no type annotations, all just automatic inferences. Anybody who has tried to work with type annotations in Python knows how hard this is.
So, those guys are quite obviously overselling their product. I can understand it, academic life is hard, and once you've completed your Ph.D., what can you do. You need to stand out. But these claims don't pass the smell test, sorry.
Since Codon performs static type checking ahead of time, a few of Python's dynamic features are disallowed. For example, monkey patching classes at runtime (although Codon supports a form of this at compile time) or adding objects of different types to a collection. This seems like a very different language from Python if it won't let you do: [1, 'a string']
I have been using Python since 25 years, and never needed that one.
Do people not know about numba which unlike this project is FOSS and integrates with numpy???
Free for non-production use... it's a "no" for me.
Surprised this sentiment is so common. It's like, do you want open source devs to work for free forever? Even Redis had to pivot to a business license. I'm not sure what the terms are in this particular case, but in general, wanting someone to pay if they're deploying it to lots of customers seems reasonable.
Wrong, Redis has a BSD-3 license: https://github.com/redis/redis
Optional add-ons to Redis may have non-free licenses.
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I got a massive jump in performance when moving from Python 3.8 to 3.10 (over some function call optimizations I think, based on the project). And 3.11 got even better (up to 50% faster on special cases, and 10~15% on average) with respect to 3.10. Python 3.12 is already getting even more speedups and a there's a lot more down the road[0]. But Python core developers value keeping "not breaking anyones code" (Python 3…
Interesting. What is the status of the GIL these days?
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I have been using Python since 25 years, and never needed that one.
You've never had to read arbitrary json?
Not surprised but I did want to confirm.
Anybody claiming it's almost Python is kidding themselves. This compiler needs to do static type checking. This is inherently impossible in Python. Not just because of some obscure corner cases that nobody uses. It's baked into the language itself. Reality-check: Why do you think type hints and type checkers like mypy and pyright take such a long time to get going and even they are not there yet? If this was all so e…