Re: [pypy-dev] Microsoft is starting its own JIT for Python.

2016-07-21 Thread Nathaniel Smith
It's not "Microsoft", it's an experimental side project of two people who happen to work at Microsoft. As I understand it, the core motivation is to explore how far they can get in dragging upstream CPython in a JITwards direction -- so it's written as a extension module for CPython, and it require

Re: [pypy-dev] Microsoft is starting its own JIT for Python.

2016-07-21 Thread Eli Stevens (Gmail)
Isn't the blurb about PyPy now incorrect, with the cpyext advancements? """PyPy is an implementation of Python with its own JIT. The biggest difference compared to Pyjion is that PyPy doesn't support all C extension modules without modification unless they use CFFI or work with the select subset o

[pypy-dev] Microsoft is starting its own JIT for Python.

2016-07-21 Thread Phyo Arkar
Hello PyPy Team; I guess you guys already known. Microsft is starting its own pypy : https://github.com/Microsoft/Pyjion The main reason they mention there is due to weak CPyext support but It is just duplicating work, as you guys are already working on it . Shouldn't microsoft contribute into C