Personal site of Mark Railton, a software developer based in County Wicklow, Ireland... (more…)

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Pyjion is a JIT compiler. It compiles native CPython bytecode into machine code. Without Pyjion, CPython uses a master evaluation loop (called the frame evaluation loop) to iterate over opcodes... (more…)

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Mypyc compiles Python modules to C extensions. It uses standard Python type hints to generate fast code. (more…)