PyPy was developed as a fast, Open Source, and compliant alternative implementation of the Python programming language.
PyPy comes with several advantages over Python that could help improve your development process.
What's New in This Release:
· cffi is officially supported by PyPy. You can install it normally by using pip install cffi once you have installed PyPy and pip. The corresponding 0.4 version of cffi has been released.
· ARM is now an officially supported processor architecture. PyPy now work on soft-float ARM/Linux builds. Currently ARM processors supporting the ARMv7 and later ISA that include a floating-point unit are supported.
· This release contains the latest Python standard library 2.7.3 and is fully compatible with Python 2.7.3.
· It does not however contain hash randomization, since the solution present in CPython is not solving the problem anyway. The reason can be found on the CPython issue tracker.
· gc.get_referrers() is now faster.
Various numpy improvements. The list includes:
· axis argument support in many places
· full support for fancy indexing
· complex128 and complex64 dtypes
· JIT hooks are now a powerful tool to introspect the JITting process that PyPy performs.
· **kwds usage is much faster in the typical s...