Future of Pypy?

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Sun Feb 22 09:05:41 EST 2015


Dave Farrance wrote:

> As an engineer, I can quickly knock together behavioural models of
> electronic circuits,  complete units, and control systems in Python, then
> annoyingly in a few recent cases, have to re-write in C for speed.
> 
> I've tried PyPy, the just-in-time compiler for Python, and that is
> impressively, hugely fast in comparison, but it's no good making these
> models if I can't display the results in a useful way, and at the moment
> PyPy just doesn't have the huge range of useful time-saving libraries that
> CPython has.

I assume you're talking about drawing graphics rather than writing text. Can
you tell us which specific library or libraries won't run under PyPy?



-- 
Steven




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