NYC 2015
Tuesday 5:05 p.m.–5:45 p.m.
A survey of Python interpreters
Brett Cannon
- Audience level:
- Novice
Description
Over Python's long history it has collected a large number of implementations, both active and abandoned (Wikipedia lists 10 implementations alone). This talk will go over the actively maintained implementations of Python, what makes them unique, and end with an unscientific performance comparison (both Python 2 & 3 interpreters).
Abstract
Actively maintained interpreters
- CPython
- PyPy
- IronPython
- Jython
Interpreters under development
- Skython?
- Pyston
- Pyjion
Interpreters that have ceased to be
Too many to list individually
Other ways to get a performance boost
- Numba
- Cython
Performance comparison
An exploration of performance using CPython's benchmark suite. Data will be made publicly available through a Jupyter notebook.
