alt Hacker NewsWhat's the status of 'Faster CPython'?
I wouldn't be surprised if they all went nodejs instead :/
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tweakimp • yesterday at 1:08 PM
Microsoft is not financing it any more and laid off most of the team working on it.
What's the status of 'Faster CPython'?
I wouldn't be surprised if they all went nodejs instead :/
Microsoft is not financing it any more and laid off most of the team working on it.
While JIT is being dropped, the original proposer and leader of the initiative was hired by ARM and continues work on speeding up Python.
His current focus seems to be speeding up GC and free threading.