Unladen-Swallow: A faster python

[Tim Roberts]

Luis M. González <luismgz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>This is a new project started by two Google engineers to speed up
>python:
>http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/

I read this with a skeptical eye, but they have some very interesting ideas
here.  IronPython has certainly shown that Python can be successfully
implemented in a JIT compiled VM in a performant way, but it has issues
running C extension modules.

I'll be curious to see where this project goes.
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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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