python speed

[Carl Friedrich Bolz]

Hi!

Harald Armin Massa wrote:
> And I could see real development just from watching the BDFL: 3 years
> ago PyPy was 2000times slower then CPython, and Guido was joking "and
> that number is growing", this year there were not officially negated
> romours that sometime maybe PyPy could be the reference implementation
> of Python; and also reports that PyPy is only 18 times slower then
> CPython.

well, currently PyPy is around 9-11 times slower than CPython. Since a 
few weeks ago we are now able to switch stacklessness on and off at 
compile time to be able to have an interpreter that supports very deeply 
recursive algorithms, if that is needed.

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich Bolz