"And an academic curiosity which killed psyco into the bargain."

Actually, pypy is based on pyco's ideas. His author, Armin Rigo, is also the main developer of pypy.
Psyco is the proof of concept for pypy's just in time compiler.
Luis | 07/02/19 - 2:32 am | #

And most importantly, Psyco does not seem all that dead to me:

http://psyco.sourceforge.net/

Time for a retraction, man.
Nicola Larosa | Homepage | 07/02/19 - 7:05 am | #

"Psyco is the proof of concept for pypy's just in time compiler."

Yes - and now psyco (which was originally developed before PyPy was even a gleam in anyone's eye) is *not* under active development.

There is no 64bit version and Armin has said he won't create one.

And on top of that the JIT compiler is still not 'working' (and certainly not available as a CPython extension).

So active development of Psyco has stopped (read the homepage) and there is only the 'future possibility' of a replacement for CPython.

From the psyco homepage "However, Psyco has not been in very active development for quite a while now." - although Armin has been pushing out bugfixes etc...

Michael
Fuzzyman | Homepage | 07/02/19 - 11:28 am | #