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’ve seen the Mill CPU come up a number of times — maybe because I subscribed to their updates and so I get emails about their talks. They’re getting a bunch of buzz, but every t…