Dr. C. Scott Ananian (cananian) wrote,
Dr. C. Scott Ananian
cananian

Binding python to v8

Google's v8 virtual machine (part of Chrome) is really great, from a virtual-machine-implementer's perspective. It would be a fantastic backend for Python, because of the way that object mutation and method dispatch is handled. I thought of hacking together a proof-of-concept, but decided that my work at OLPC wasn't really benefited by my going off to spend a year writing a fast Python runtime.

Luckily, I don't have to: pyv8 is a proof-of-concept implementation of just such a thing! And it's ten times faster than standard interpreted Python -- although it should be noted that this is for a strictly toy benchmark.

What's missing is bypassing pyjamas and working directly from python bytecode, and a better attempt at providing python standard library support. Hopefully other bright minds are hard at work on this!
Tags: olpc, python, v8
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