I think a decent amount about developer productivity, and there’s a rule of thumb that I like that surprises most people when they hear it: if you simplistically convert developer salaries into $/hr and computer costs into $/hr, you get a ratio of about 6,000:1 (see later for math). In other words, it costs roughly…
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I have a particular view of Python performance from my experience on the Pyston project, and since this view is somewhat nonstandard I wanted to take some time to explain it and give a motivating e…
In case you missed it, Marius recently wrote a post on the Pyston blog about our baseline JIT tier. Our baseline JIT sits between our interpreter tier and our LLVM JIT tier, providing better speed…
I try to not read HN/Reddit too much about Pyston, since while there are certainly some smart and reasonable people on there, there also seem to be quite a few people with axes to grind (*cough cou…