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The previous version of Pyston, a faster implementation of the Python programming language. Please use this link for the new repository:

27 mentions on Hacker News by 27 people: 3 stories, 24 comments · first 2014-04-03 · latest 2020-02-09

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  1. I'm not sure if it's an exact fit, but dropbox used to have pyston: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston The blog posts by Kevin Modzelewski went into the internals: https://blog.pyston.org/ Also by the same person, a good article on Python's…
    comment by tony · 2020-02-09 · in Wrestling Python into LLVM Intermediate Representation (2019) [video]
  2. …all of the application in C/C++/Rust/Go whereas that's not an option in Javascriptland. Ask Dropbox https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
    comment by oweiler · 2019-09-12 · in A lighter V8
  3. Dropbox's implementation of python was pyston: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston But I think it's dead now: https://blog.pyston.org/
    comment by zawerf · 2019-09-08 · in Our journey to type checking 4M lines of Python
  4. …So does f#, via `#!/usr/bin/env fsharpi --exec` I think You can compile python: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston You can compile JS: http://enclosejs.com/ I wouldn't be surprised if someone found a way to AOT-compile bash, but I'm not go
    comment by regularfry · 2019-02-11 · in 38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using types
  5. …find a quote on this. Not using tagged pointers was a conscientious decision from Guido (see e.g. https://github.com/dropbox/pyston/issues/181#issuecomment-62... ) [edited] Something that people often overlook when talking about optimizing…
    comment by cdavid · 2017-07-02 · in Memory use in CPython and MicroPython
  6. …were inclined to write a Python interpreter stack that compiled to LLVM (which might already exist? https://github.com/dropbox/pyston ) The purpose of WebAssembly, pNaCl, and its ilk, is to get out from under the unfortunate accident that…
    comment by fixermark · 2017-06-01 · in WebAssembly: Mozilla Won
  7. https://github.com/dropbox/pyston seems to be option 3
    comment by data_hope · 2016-07-08 · in Release of IPython 5.0
  8. …talking about PyPy, have a look at Pyston, an ongoing effort by Dropbox to build a fast Python. https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
    comment by pepijndevos · 2016-04-18 · in How fast can we make interpreted Python? (2013)
  9. I wonder why Dropbox is focusing Pyston ( https://github.com/dropbox/pyston ) only on 2.7 atm. With PyPy supporting 2.7 very well, it'd seem a greater benefit to the community to target 3. That said, I'm sure there are specific things…
    comment by rufugee · 2016-03-08 · in Python 3 Is Winning Library Developer Support
  10. Unladen Swallow was abandoned, but for Python there is now Dropbox's Pyston - https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
    comment by michel-slm · 2015-10-24 · in LLVM Code Generation in HHVM
  11. Can anyone comment on the future of Pyston[1]? [1]: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
    comment by mikewhy · 2015-08-08 · in Dropbox's infrastructure is Go at a huge scale
  12. …pyston project from Dropbox is an attempt to build a python runtime sitting on top of the LLVM JIT https://github.com/dropbox/pyston 2) The numba project for python also uses llvm's jit direct from Python, just requiring you to add a…
    comment by Twirrim · 2015-04-08 · in JIT-compilation using GCC 5
  13. …did Dropbox guys started building Pyston [1] ? Why not get behind pypy team and support them ? [1] https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
    comment by crudbug · 2015-03-20 · in HippyVM goes to Y Combinator and fails
  14. …don't see gvanrossum among them. [1]: https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/510154006564335616 [2]: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston/graphs/contributors
    comment by chucksmash · 2015-02-25 · in Pyston 0.3: Self-hosting Sufficiency
  15. …I had (still?) assumed that Pyston hasn't gotten to leverage those much yet. Turns out I'm wrong: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston/blob/master/src/codegen/pa...
    comment by boulos · 2015-02-24 · in Pyston 0.3: Self-hosting Sufficiency
  16. …thought about this? It seems that since Dropbox's Pyston uses LLVM, it would be a perfect fit. https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
    comment by btown · 2015-01-17 · in What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8 Speed?
  17. Keep an eye on this new python implementation: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
    comment by andrewchambers · 2015-01-16 · in What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8 Speed?
  18. Seems to still be actively developed: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston/commits/master
    comment by bhouston · 2015-01-06 · in Open Sourcing Our Go Libraries (2014)
  19. …on their blog, for those interested: http://blog.pyston.org/2014/11/21/pyston-status-update/ [0] https://github.com/dropbox/pyston/graphs/commit-activity
    comment by rattray · 2014-12-22 · in Rusthon – A Pythonic language that compiles to Rust and C++
  20. …to see how Nuitka performs. At the moment I'm also very excited about Pyston from Dropbox: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
    comment by insertion · 2014-12-19 · in Nuitka: a Python compiler
  21. …many lessons were learned from it). The active Python LLVM Jit project is Dropbox's Pyston: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/04/introducing-pyston-an-upcom...
    comment by bobbyi_settv · 2014-05-14 · in Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT
  22. Yes. Moreover, Dropbox is trying roughly similar architecture for their Python implementation. https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
    comment by sanxiyn · 2014-05-14 · in Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT
  23. Like this? https://github.com/dropbox/pyston#compilation-tiers
    comment by jbs3982 · 2014-04-04 · in Announcing Pyston: an upcoming, JIT-based Python implementation
  24. There's some more technical details here: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston#technical-features Right now they have no baseline compiler but will interpret (un-optimised?) LLVM IR at first, second tier is unoptimised LLVM compilation, then…
    comment by asb · 2014-04-03 · in Announcing Pyston: an upcoming, JIT-based Python implementation