[Python-Dev] Speeding up CPython 5-10%

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 01:25:27PM -0500, Yury Selivanov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> tl;dr The summary is that I have a patch that improves CPython 
> performance up to 5-10% on macro benchmarks.  Benchmarks results on 
> Macbook Pro/Mac OS X, desktop CPU/Linux, server CPU/Linux are available 
> at [1].  There are no slowdowns that I could reproduce consistently.

Have you looked at Cesare Di Mauro's wpython? As far as I know, it's now 
unmaintained, and the project repo on Google Code appears to be dead (I 
get a 404), but I understand that it was significantly faster than 
CPython back in the 2.6 days.

https://wpython.googlecode.com/files/Beyond%20Bytecode%20-%20A%20Wordcode-based%20Python.pdf



-- 
Steve