http://simonwillison.net/2010-01-07T12:41:48+00:00Simon Willison2010-01-07T12:41:48+00:002010-01-07T12:41:48+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jan/7/voidspace/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2010_01_02.shtml#e1146">Current State of Unladen Swallow (Towards a Faster Python)</a></strong></p> The Unladen Swallow team are now planning to merge their work back in to the mainline Python 3 branch, adding a powerful incentive for Python developers to port their old Python 2 code (since the official Python 2.x line is extremely unlikely to have Unladen Swallow merged in to it). <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python3">python3</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/unladenswallow">unladenswallow</a></p>

2009-03-30T10:10:23+00:002009-03-30T10:10:23+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Mar/30/youtube/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/03/28/the-pycon-summits/"><p>Apparently [unladen-swallow] is already 30% faster than CPython, and this version is being used to run some of the Python code on YouTube.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/03/28/the-pycon-summits/">Ted Leung</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/unladenswallow">unladenswallow</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/youtube">youtube</a></p>

2009-03-30T10:09:46+00:002009-03-30T10:09:46+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Mar/30/projectplan/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan">ProjectPlan - unladen-swallow</a></strong></p> A branch of Python 2.6 aiming to radically improve performance (the target is a 5x improvement), by compiling Python to machine code using LLVM’s JIT engine. I think this is a Google 20% time project (or maybe not, see the comments). An early version without LLVM is already available for download. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jit">jit</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llvm">llvm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/performance">performance</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/unladenswallow">unladenswallow</a></p>