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yellowstuff | 2 years ago

There have been several attempts. For example, Google tried to introduce a JIT in 2011 with a project named Unladen Swallow, but that ended up getting abandoned.

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pansa2|2 years ago

Unladen Swallow was massively over-hyped. It was talked about as though Google had a large team writing “V8 for Python”, but IIRC it was really just an internship project.

kragen|2 years ago

well, there were a couple of guys working on it