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graemep • yesterday at 3:03 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

They all have drawbacks, but they also reduce the case for needing to speed up CPython.

Pypy does provide faster pure Python. Its a compatible implementation with JIT.

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thayne • yesterday at 6:56 PM

The newest version of python that PyPy supports is 3.12. CPython is on 3.15.

And from what I understand there are limitations with using libraries that use the CPython API to interface with native code.

v3ss0n • yesterday at 6:13 PM

Onlything is a lot of cextensions are super slow there. that is only bottleneck left which could be solved with resources that those guys spent on experimental jit.