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by beambot 5734 days ago
Should also just check out Psyco: http://psyco.sourceforge.net/

"Psyco is a Python extension module which can greatly speed up the execution of any Python code."
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jaen 5734 days ago
Psyco is unmaintained, the developer of it (Armin Rigo) is working on PyPy (a Python compiler written in Python) instead: http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/

They are already seeing quite nice results for computation-heavy benchmarks with the (tracing) JIT: http://speed.pypy.org/comparison/

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Jach 5733 days ago
While psyco is great you can't really rely on it anymore since it's 32-bit only. Though simply using it if it's available does help slower, older machines that need the speedup, so I wouldn't write it off completely.

Hopefully Unladen Swallow will make even more progress over the rest of the year.

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