[Python-Dev] Speeding up CPython 5-10% (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Fri Jan 29 23:28:35 EST 2016


On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 01:25:27PM -0500, Yury Selivanov wrote:

Hi,

tl;dr The summary is that I have a patch that improves CPython performance up to 5-10% on macro benchmarks. Benchmarks results on Macbook Pro/Mac OS X, desktop CPU/Linux, server CPU/Linux are available at [1]. There are no slowdowns that I could reproduce consistently.

Have you looked at Cesare Di Mauro's wpython? As far as I know, it's now unmaintained, and the project repo on Google Code appears to be dead (I get a 404), but I understand that it was significantly faster than CPython back in the 2.6 days.

https://wpython.googlecode.com/files/Beyond%20Bytecode%20-%20A%20Wordcode-based%20Python.pdf

-- Steve



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