SMRTR ProgrammingSep 18, 2024Hacker News

A high-performance, zero-overhead, extensible Python compiler using LLVM

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Codon is a high-performance Python implementation that compiles to native machine code, offering 10-100x speedups over vanilla Python. It supports native multithreading, matches C/C++ performance, and aims to maintain Python-like syntax while enabling seamless hardware support and optimizations for top-notch performance.

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