PyPy - the new Python implementation on the block

Language/VM R&D, whole program type inference, translation to low level backends, fun

Armin Rigo, Carl Friedrich Bolz and Holger Krekel

• 61 min
• 2005-12-28
• 2007-12-29
• 229
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We present our first self-contained Python virtual machine that uses parts of itself to translate itself to low level languages ("the Muenchhausen approach"). The PyPy approach could solve problems at language/interpreter-level that formerly required complex frameworkish solutions at user-level.

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