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PyPy — How can it possibly beat CPython?

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From the Google Open Source Blog: PyPy is a reimplementation of Python in Python, using advanced techniques to try to attain better performance than CPython. Many years of hard work have finally paid off. Our speed results often beat CPython, ranging from being slightly slower, to speedups of up to 2x on real application code, … Read more

Why shouldn’t I use PyPy over CPython if PyPy is 6.3 times faster?

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I’ve been hearing a lot about the PyPy project. They claim it is 6.3 times faster than the CPython interpreter on their site. Whenever we talk about dynamic languages like Python, speed is one of the top issues. To solve this, they say PyPy is 6.3 times faster. The second issue is parallelism, the infamous … Read more