I think that this is great news for Julia, especially if Dropbox puts serious engineering effort into this project. Julia is dynamically typed just like Python, so all the high level optimizations PySton needs to make a Python LLVM JIT fast will be aplicable to Julia. Both will sit ontop of LLVM's MCJIT and they will likely have to contribute patches to make this project sucessful, which will again benefit Julia. It looks like they are going to attempt interesting things like tiered compilation, escape analysis for GC'd memory, and backpatching of JIT'ed code, all things Julia does not do at the moment.
-Jake On Friday, April 4, 2014 2:46:08 PM UTC-4, Cristóvão Duarte Sousa wrote: > > Once again pythonistas feel the need for > a single high-level-high-performance language: > > https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/04/introducing-pyston-an-upcoming-jit-based-python-implementation/ >
