Opinions on Unladen Swallow?
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What are your opinions and expectations on Google's Unladen Swallow? From their project plan:
We want to make Python faster, but we also want to make it easy for large, well-established applications to switch to Unladen Swallow.
- Produce a version of Python at least 5x faster than CPython.
- Python application performance should be stable.
- Maintain source-level compatibility with CPython applications.
- Maintain source-level compatibility with CPython extension modules.
- We do not want to maintain a Python implementation forever; we view our work as a branch, not a fork.
And even sweeter:
In addition, we intend to remove the GIL and fix the state of multithreading in Python. We believe this is possible through the implementation of a more sophisticated GC
It almost looks too good to be true, like the best of PyPy and Stackless combined.
More info:
- Jesse Noller: "Pycon: Unladen-Swallow"
- ArsTechnica: "Google searches for holy grail of Python performance"
Update: as DNS pointed out, there was related question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/695370/what-is-llvm-and-how-is-replacing-python-vm-with-llvm-increasing-speeds-5x
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