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There was a Python JIT a decade ago - Psyco [1]. It was/is a lot faster than normal Python. The community, however, decided to go down the PyPy route.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyco



There's a gigantic graveyard littered with dozens of abanoned Python JITs, Psyco is hardly unique. The community has not at all gone down the PyPy route, nobody uses PyPy either, even if it's technically not abandoned.

There's little reason to think these new JITs will fare any better.




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