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by beervirus 2072 days ago
Psyco was great. Add two lines of code, suddenly everything is (at least a little, often a lot) faster.
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xioxox 2072 days ago
It was great. It showed that it is actually possible to run fast Python from within the standard interpreter with excellent compatibility. The only downside I remember was the memory usage.
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chrisseaton 2071 days ago
Why isn't everyone using it then?
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beervirus 2071 days ago
Doesn’t support modern Python versions.

>12 March 2012

>Psyco is unmaintained and dead. Please look at PyPy for the state-of-the-art in JIT compilers for Python.

http://psyco.sourceforge.net/

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