HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Sun, 21 Jun 2015 10:29:32 +0100, BartC writes:
>It also puts in a good dig at PyPy by including one benchmark where it 
>is 6 times as slow as CPython!
>
>It's not clear why it's particularly useful for astrophysics.
>
>-- 
>Bartc

It's not that good a dig, as they say that it took less than 1 second
to run most of their benchmarks, which mostly means that the PyPy JIT
won't have started to run anyway.  One can argue that HOPE isn't
actually a method JIT at all -- or if it is one, then so is Cython.

Laura