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PyPy v8.0.0 Release

68 points · 15 comments · lumpa

  1. gomoboo · · focus · HN ↗
    It always bugs me to think about the Python community not rallying around PyPy. Faster Python is right there and has been there for years. Sure there can be C-extension issues but projects like HPy showed you can remedy that. Why doesn’t everyone just use and support PyPy?
    1. vova_hn2 · · focus · HN ↗
      A lot of Python code is just a relatively thin layer of "glue" between C libraries.

      An ML pipeline will probably rely on numpy to do all the heavy lifting.

      A web backend will probably use something like psycopg, which is a wrapper around libpq (official postgres client lib, written in C).

      etc

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