Reflections on 2 years of CPython's JIT Compiler: The good, the bad, the ugly

4 bratao 1 7/5/2025, 10:15:08 PM fidget-spinner.github.io ↗

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ggm · 16h ago
What fundamentals would make the jit, this specific jit faster? Because if it's demonstrably slower, it begs the question if it can be faster or is inherently slower than a decent optimisation path through a compiler.

At this point it's a great didactic tool and a passion project surely? Or, has advantages in other dimensions like runtime size, debugging, and .pyc coverage, or in thread safe code or ...