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Yeah, but this project is actually delivering stuff that's been shipped. That's perhaps why it's taking a bit longer. As far as I can tell, they haven't gotten to the boxing removal stuff yet where the really big wins probably are.

As for your fantasy, we already have PyPy.



>Yeah, but this project is actually delivering stuff that's been shipped.

The initial selling point was ~ 5x speedup over 5 years.

This is over a year now, with far more people and resources plus the backling of a major industry-player (MS), and it's been like 20%-30% improvements at best, and even those in danger to be wiped out by the no-gil change.

>As for your fantasy, we already have PyPy.

That's nowhere near Lars Bak level fantasy results...


It was actually 5x in 4 years (1.5x per year).

As you said we see 20-30% at best. And several important workloads have important slowdowns (for example coveragepy runs 30-50% slower).

The GIL is an academic problem which has little real world relevance.




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