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Codon 0.17 Released For LLVM-Based Python Implementation For 10~100x Speedups
Codon is an open-source project that leverages the LLVM compiler infrastructure and aims for super fast Python code with as much as 10~100x speedups
Codon is an open-source project that leverages the LLVM compiler infrastructure and aims for super fast Python code with as much as 10~100x speedups. The Codon project promotes "10-100x or more" speedups over upstream Python and that the performance can be comparable to that of traditional C/C++ code. With Codon 0.17 the project has re-based to upstream LLVM 17 compiler use, adds new floating point type support for float16 / bfloat16 / float128, updates to various existing functions, added input() function handling, property setters are now supported, and there have been improvements to the dynamic polymorphism handling to better match CPython.
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