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almostgotcaught07/31/20253 repliesview on HN

Why do people feel the need to comment this on every single JIT post? Like imagine commenting on every post about Pepsi "Coca-cola exists since 1886".


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a-french-anon08/01/2025

Because Pypy wasn't even _mentioned_ in the JIT PEP (https://peps.python.org/pep-0744/), like it's the black sheep the family isn't supposed to talk about.

pjmlp07/31/2025

Because as proven multiple times, the problem isn't Python, rather CPython, and many folks keep mixing languages with implementations.

v3ss0n08/01/2025

Because it is one of the most ambitious project in opensource world and very little is known about that. It is neglected by Python Contributor community for unknown reasons ( something political it seems) . It was developed as PHD Research project by really good researchers. PyPy had written python in Pure python and surpassed performance of Python written in C by 4-20x . They delivered Python with JIT and also Static RPython : which is subset of python which compiles directly to binary. I had also personally worked together with some of the lead PyPy developers on commercial projects and they are the best developers to work together with.

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