rjpower/falcon
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C Python, made faster.
6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2013-07-27 · latest 2019-02-25
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…- but Russell Power’s “Falcon” was an attempt to solve these issues that showed a lot of promise. https://github.com/rjpower/falcon
comment by beagle3 · 2019-02-25 · in The CPython Bytecode Compiler Is Dumb -
…README points out the difference in goals and performance between Falcon and PyPy quite nicely: https://github.com/rjpower/falcon/blob/master/README.md
comment by piquadrat · 2016-04-18 · in How fast can we make interpreted Python? (2013) -
…within CPython. Average of 25% faster to up to 2.5x on the benchmarks in the paper. Source link: https://github.com/rjpower/falcon/ (doesn't show up in the paper till the very end!)
comment by _ihaque · 2016-04-18 · in How fast can we make interpreted Python? (2013) -
The maintenance effort. The big performance win is nice (this benchmark: https://github.com/rjpower/falcon/blob/master/benchmarks/mat... ), but it is still going to be a lot slower than doing it the horrible way (calling out to Numpy). The…
comment by maxerickson · 2013-07-27 · in How fast can we make interpreted Python? -
From the project page, https://github.com/rjpower/falcon/ "... However, this doesn't mean that programs which use these constructs won't run. Any missing functionality is routed through the Python C API, foregoing any potential performance…
comment by phonon · 2013-07-27 · in How fast can we make interpreted Python? -
From the paper: http://github.com/rjpower/falcon/
comment by kghose · 2013-07-27 · in How fast can we make interpreted Python?