Friday, March 27, 2009

Google's Unladen Swallow: 5x higher Python performance?

Saw this via some Python-related tweets on Twitter - Google is working on a project to boost Python performance by upto 5 times. The project is called Unladen Swallow:

Google searches for holy grail of Python performance

Their plan is to do this using an LLVM-based JIT. Sounds very interesting. If it succeeds, Unladen Swallow could do for Python performance, what Hotspot and related innovations did for Java application performance - which is, make it greatly faster.





Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises

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