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[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Since it's running mypyc (https://mypyc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html ) on the imports under the hood, I'm struggling to see why you'd want to limit yourself to the standard library instead of just compiling your whole program as a module with mypyc directly?

At the same time, if the gains are consistent, I also feel that CPython should just compile an entire standard library on installation.

EDIT: benchmarks for mypyc look impressive, only exceptions are slower:

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hmmm. Interesting. Why not a project that just simply writes the (Python parts of the) standard library in C directly?

[–] plistig@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Many, many parts of the standard library are written in C. Most performance critical parts are.

Do you need a pre-compiled tomllib? If you are using toml a lot, maybe. But chances are that you aren't reading a lot of toml files, and if you are, then you're probably already using rtoml.

[–] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

The json is also still Python code. ujson helps but still json.dumps is suuuper slow.