[Python-Dev] FAT Python (lack of) performance (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 17:58:12 EST 2016

2016-01-25 22:51 GMT+01:00 Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de>:

- they provide a great infrastructure for optimizing CPython AND extending/experimenting Python as an ecosystem

I hope that these API will create more optimizer projects than just fatoptimizer.

For example, I expect more specialized optimizers like numba or pythran which are very efficient but more specific (ex: numeric computations) than fatoptimizer. Maybe not new optimizers, but just glue to existing static compilers (numba, pythran, cython, etc.).

If there's anything I can do, let me know. :)

Oh, they are a lot of things to do! My patches for PEP 509, 510 and 511 still need some love (reviews):

http://bugs.python.org/issue26058 http://bugs.python.org/issue26098 http://bugs.python.org/issue26145

I'm finishing my patch adding ast.Constant. This one is less controversal, it has no impact on performance nor the Python semantics:

http://bugs.python.org/issue26146

But these patches are boring C code. You may prefer to work on the funny fatoptimizer project which is written in pure Python:

https://fatoptimizer.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Victor

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