> I have to wonder why Python as a communities have always have the interested to substantially speed up Python. While the Ruby Camp has always been about if you want more speed, do it in C.
Not sure I agree with that - a big part of the excitement about 1.9 was how much faster it was, and stock Python isn't significantly faster than YARV. Didn't Python 3 actually come with a modest reduction in performance when it was released?
PyPy's certainly ahead quite a bit, but it still seems rather ignored by most.
> I hope Ruby MRI will one day get its own Google V8 / LuaJIT treatment.
Rubinius is a JITing LLVM-based Ruby VM with accurate compacting generational GC and no global interpreter lock. And of course there's the similarly capable JRuby, which leverages the JVM JIT quite heavily.
Not sure I agree with that - a big part of the excitement about 1.9 was how much faster it was, and stock Python isn't significantly faster than YARV. Didn't Python 3 actually come with a modest reduction in performance when it was released?
PyPy's certainly ahead quite a bit, but it still seems rather ignored by most.
> I hope Ruby MRI will one day get its own Google V8 / LuaJIT treatment.
Rubinius is a JITing LLVM-based Ruby VM with accurate compacting generational GC and no global interpreter lock. And of course there's the similarly capable JRuby, which leverages the JVM JIT quite heavily.