Post by @wingo@mastodon.social

it is still baffling to me that capitalism could fund three excellent jit runtimes for javascript but zero for python https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/0c00e4d550f25f8c/

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Python's experimental JIT to be removed

Python's experimental just-in-time (JIT) compiler, which was added to CPython in 2024 for the 3 [...]

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Evan Martin

@evmar@inuh.net 38 min. ago

@wingo a friend of mine also made an attempt in this space and wrote a retro about why they failed. https://qinsb.blogspot.com/2011/03/unladen-swallow-retrospective.html?m=1

Unladen Swallow Retrospective

I wrote this while I was at PyCon, but I kept revising it. Anyway, here goes. :) As is apparent by now, no one has really been doing any ...

sarna

@sarna@types.pl 56 min. ago

@wingo also three for ruby, which is curious (yjit, mjit, zjit)

Andy Wingo

@wingo@mastodon.social 54 min. ago

@sarna that to me is more a kind of coopetition, in that it’s still on the same runtime. like ionmonkey vs tracemonkey

Holger

@kephalos@social.tchncs.de 1 hr. ago

@wingo pypy was kind of nice for pure python code.

Andy Wingo

@wingo@mastodon.social 58 min. ago

@kephalos pypy is great :)

Andy Wingo

@wingo@mastodon.social 1 hr. ago

incidentally. it is interesting to me that llms have not yet produced a good jit janguage implementation. counterexamples welcome fwiw (of course they are used extensively in the construction of the js runtimes)

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