PyCon 2011: Why is Python slow and how PyPy can help?

Alex Gaynor PyPy is a virtual machine for Python, featuring an advanced just in time compiler, which can deliver exceptional performance. This talk is going to be a deep dive into what exactly makes Python such a hard language to optimize, how PyPy is organized, and what optimizations our JIT can do (and what it can't do) for your code.

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