PyPy 1.0: JIT compilers for free and more

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On Mar 28, 5:36 pm, Jarek Zgoda <jzg... at o2.usun.pl> wrote:
> Carl Friedrich Bolz napisa³(a):
>
> > Welcome to the PyPy 1.0 release - a milestone integrating the results
> > of four years of research, engineering, management and sprinting
> > efforts, concluding the 28 months phase of EU co-funding!
>
> So it took 4 yars of work and over 2 yaers of consumption of EU funds,
> yeah, great.
>
> Could anybody explain, what this gives to Python and its users? Would
> we, eventually, get GIL-free VM, that is capable to consume all
> available power of multicore processors?

That is the eventual hope, along with a faster Python interpreter
(with a true functional JIT), and stackless features, and more easily
developed syntax, and retargetable front- and back- ends (allowing,
e.g. easier development of Python on the .NET CLI, JVM, etc, or other
languages like Javascript, Lisp, or whatever on the PyPy VM), and fast
extensions written in RPython instead of C, and many other features.