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by acmj 318 days ago
Pypy is 10x faster and is compatible with most cpython code. IMHO it was a big mistake not to adopt JIT during the 2-to-3 transition.
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That “most” is doing a big lift there. At some point you might consider that you’re actually programming in the language of Pypy and not pure Python. It’s effectively a dialect of the language like Turbo Pascal vs ISO Pascal or RPerl instead of Perl.
Most is more CPython code than python 3 was compatible with. But the port of the broken code was likely much easier than if it had moved to a JIT at the same time too.
Isn't there an incoming JIT in 3.14?