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		icebraining on April 2, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scaleway: Bare metal SSD ARM servers What Python jit? Do you mean PyPy?

tomjen3 on April 2, 2015 [–]

I assumed the standard python command used a JIT.

Is this really not the case? In 2015?

icebraining on April 2, 2015 | [–]

Nope, CPython compiles source to bytecode (ahead of time), but then interprets that bytecode. There's no JIT.

wyldfire on April 2, 2015 | | [–]

...except for the aforementioned PyPy. Which is quite good IMO! (and supports ARM)

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