#49: Microsoft's JIT-based Python Project: Pyjion

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

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4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This episode you'll learn about a project that has the potential to unlock massive innovation around how CPython understands and executes code. And it's coming from what many of you may consider an unlikely source: Microsoft and the recently open-sourced, cross-platform .NET Core runtime.

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0:00.0	This episode, you'll learn about a project that has the potential to unlock massive innovation
0:04.2	around how C-Python understands and executes code.
0:07.5	And it's coming from what many of you may consider an unlikely source, Microsoft,
0:11.6	and the recently open-sourced cross-platform.net core runtime.
0:16.1	You'll meet Brett Cannon, who works on Microsoft's Azure Data Group.
0:19.6	Along with Dino Velin, he is working on
0:22.4	a new initiative called P-Y-J-I-O-N, a J-I-O-N, a J-T framework that can become part of C-Python
0:29.0	itself paving the way for many new just-in-time compilation initiatives in the future.
0:34.1	This is episode number 49 of Talk Python to Me, recorded February 4th, 2016.
0:40.4	I'm a developer, developers, developers, developers, developers, because I make these
0:47.0	applications, but I also use these verbs to make this music. I constructed line by line,
0:52.5	just like when I'm coding another software design in both cases
0:56.4	it's about design patterns anyone can get the job done it's the execution that matters
1:01.3	I have many interests.
1:02.9	Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries,
1:08.0	the ecosystem, and the personalities.
1:10.4	This is your host, Michael Kennedy.
1:11.9	Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy.
1:14.0	Keep up with the show and listen to past episodes at talk python.fm.
1:17.7	And follow the show on Twitter via at Talk Python.
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