[vovavili]

Interesting. If PyPy is this capable, wonder whether an effort to make non-CPython implementations of Python compatible with C extensions would have been preferred compared to taking time and effort into implementing JIT into CPython.

[antocuni]

pypy IS compatible with C extensions, via what we call "cpyext": https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#do-c-extension-modul...

The problem of cpyext is that it's super slow, for good reasons: https://pypy.org/posts/2018/09/inside-cpyext-why-emulating-c...

There are efforts to create a new C API which is more friendly to alternative implementations (including CPython itself, when they want to change how they do things internally): https://hpyproject.org/ https://github.com/py-ni