Google's Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow that seeks to improve the performance of the Python programming language. One of the project's goals is to replace the Python virtual machine with an LLVM-based JIT.

Source: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/google-launches-project-to-boost-python-performance-by-5x.ars

http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/

Comments:

Why not Jython?

Posted by Abraham Tehrani on March 27, 2009 at 11:12 PM CET #

Well it might be a performance issue. But have a look here: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/FAQ

Posted by Thijs Metsch on April 15, 2009 at 02:21 PM CEST #

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