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Tracing JITs in the Real World CPython Core Dev Sprint
Antonio Cuni's blog
The current C API is problematic, so we are exploring ideas for the development of PyNI(Python Native Interface), whose design will likely be heavily inspired by HPy. I delivered this talk at the Core Dev Sprint: I expected my audience to be familiar with CPython's JIT, and wanted to draw parallels with PyPy's one. Historically the VM was written by hand, and the main loop consisted of a big switch statement which executed the code corresponding to each opcode.
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