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Benchmark of PyPy, Unladen S., Jython, CPython, Psyco in Rastrigin optimization

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Has anyone used PyPy to create an entirely new language? Because it's fast and defined in a higher level language, it seems like a prime candidate for language design experimentation.

Yes, there has been someone, I think it was Alex_Gaynor, who created a test language to test and help document the JIT process.

There's some implementations here, including a gameboy emulator: https://codespeak.net/viewvc/pypy/lang/

That said, it's not the best think to piggyback on for languages, because as of recent a lot of the optimizations are really fine-tuned for Python, and popular Python libraries like Django and Twisted.

It's also very nice for other languages too, because it implements the Python stdlib only, and I'm not quite sure how easy or possible "moving stuff around" (i.e. merge os and os.path or separate them even further) would be.

No memory usage data? That's usually important for heavy-duty optimization.

Next time I'll check memory footprint between implementations, sorry for now =(

Once jython gets to use the new bytecode invoke virtual i'd like to see how they compare.

No IronPython? :(

No IronPython this time =( it doesn't work well with Mono, and all testes were performed in Linux, so it's unfair to use only one in Windows OS. Soon I got time I'll test it again, this time checking memory footprint, etc...

Hopefully somebody's got the balls to run them in Windows :P

thanks, perone. very interesting.. I've heard that pypy is fast, but i would've never thought it's that fast!

Unfortunately, many non-standard python modules don't work in pypy, right?

Yep, a lot of modules still needs to be ported. There is some people (http://ademan.wordpress.com/) working in GSoC to get numpy running on PyPy for example.

That very first sentence took me about 5 minutes to chew through as I tried to determine if my "natural language parser" was acting up or if the sentence was messed up. The latter was the case.

I'm sure he could have written it better in Portugese, but then you wouldn't be able to read it and make snide comments.

Sorry for the english guys =(

Christian, your English is excellent. He is just being an ass. I enjoyed reading your blog, keep up the great work!

Really? I thought the ass-threshold on the Internet was much higher than my fairly benign comment, especially when it comes to grammar.

Welcome to Hacker News.

Great thanks man =)

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