#340: Time to JIT your Python with Pyjion?

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

Technology

4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Is Python slow? We touched on that question with Guido and Mark last episode. This time we welcome back friend of the show, Anthony Shaw. Here's there to share the massive amount of work he's been doing to answer that question and speed things up where they answer is yes. He's just released version 1.0 of the Pyjion project.

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0:00.0	Is Python slow? We touched on that question with Guido and Mark in the last episode.
0:04.5	This time, we welcome back, friend of the show, Anthony Shaw.
0:07.9	He's here to share the massive amount of work that he's been doing to answer that question
0:11.7	and speed up things where the answer is yes.
0:14.8	And he just released version one of the Pigeon project.
0:18.7	Pigeon is a drop-in JIT compiler for Python 310. It uses the dotnet
0:24.2	6 cross-platform JIT to compile and optimize Python code on the fly with zero changes to your
0:30.7	source code. It runs on Linux, MacOS, and Windows both X64 and Arm 64. It's a cool project,
0:37.2	and I'm excited Anthony's here to tell us all
0:39.1	about it. This is Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python.
1:01.6	This is your host, Michael Kennedy.
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1:29.7	Assembly AI.
1:32.0	Anthony Shaw, welcome to Talk by The Enemy.
1:34.4	Hey, Michael.
1:34.9	Good to see you again.
1:35.6	Yeah, it's great to have you back.
1:37.2	Your at least yearly appearance here, if not by name, you know, you at least appear yourself
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