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Cinder - Specialized Python that Flies

Episode #347, published Sat, Jan 8, 2022, recorded Mon, Nov 29, 2021

The team at Instagram dropped a performance bomb on the Python world when they open-sourced Cider, their performance oriented fork of CPython. It contains a number of performance optimizations, including bytecode inline caching, eager evaluation of coroutines, a method-at-a-time JIT, and an experimental bytecode compiler that uses type annotations to emit type-specialized bytecode that performs better in the JIT.

While it's not a general purpose runtime we can all pick up and use, it contains many powerful features and optimizations that may make their way back to mainline Python.

We welcome Dino Viehland to dive into Cinder.


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Dino on Twitter: @DinoViehland
Cinder Python Runtime: github.com/facebookincubator
Dino's PyCon talk: youtube.com
IronPython: ironpython.net
Sam Gross's NoGil work: github.com/colesbury/nogil
Pyjion: trypyjion.com
uWSGI: uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io
Configuring uWSGI at Bloomberg: techatbloomberg.com
Locust perf testing: locust.io
Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com
Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm

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