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bdd8f1df777b on Jan 9, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Python 3.13 Gets a JIT

Yes, but not so good when the JIT-ed Python can no longer reference those fast C code others have written. Every Python JIT project so far has suffered from incompatibility with some C-base Python extension, and users just go back to the slow interpreter in those cases.

AndrewDucker on Jan 9, 2024 [–]

"not so good when the JIT-ed Python can no longer reference those fast C code others have written"

I don't see an indication in the article that that's the case. Am I missing something?

kragen on Jan 9, 2024 | [–]

this was a big obstacle for pypy specifically

https://www.pypy.org/posts/2011/05/numpy-follow-up-692862769...

https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#what-about-numpy-num...

i'm not sure what version they gave up at

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