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Making python 5x faster

March 27th, 2009 • Comments Off on Making python 5x faster

Google’s Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow that seeks to improve the performance of the Python programming language. One of the project’s goals is to replace the Python virtual machine with an LLVM-based JIT.

Source: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/google-launches-project-to-boost-python-performance-by-5x.ars

http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/

0 responses to “Making python 5x faster”

  1. Abraham Tehrani says:

    Why not Jython?

  2. Thijs Metsch says:

    Well it might be a performance issue. But have a look here: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/FAQ