I've been hearing a lot about the
PyPy
project. They claim it is 6.3 times faster than the href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPython" rel="noreferrer">CPython
interpreter on their
site.
Whenever we talk about dynamic
languages like Python, speed is one of the top issues. To solve this, they say PyPy is
6.3 times faster.
The second issue is
parallelism, the infamous href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Interpreter_Lock" rel="noreferrer">Global
Interpreter Lock (GIL). For this, PyPy says it href="http://pypy.org/tmdonate.html" rel="noreferrer">can give GIL-less
Python.
If PyPy can solve these great
challenges, what are its weaknesses that are preventing wider adoption? That is to say,
what's preventing someone like me, a typical Python developer, from switching to PyPy
right now?
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