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 · 1h 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 ...