Name: Pyston (pyston)
Homepage: https://pyston.org
Reason: It's a JIT-based implementation of Python. We can run Python faster with it (JIT compiler go brrrr). I think Pyston is interesting because Python is slower than other programming languages like C or C++ or Java, and Pyston can help Python with it
Open source: yes, as the same license as Python
The most up to date source file: https://github.com/pyston/pyston/releases/download/pyston_2.2/pyston_2.2_portable.tar.gz
The source repository: https://github.com/pyston/pyston
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I'd rather not see yet another vendored build of LLVM get added into the repos. This seems to use TWO, one for Bolt and one for itself. Their claims of "20%" faster don't really seem good enough to justify it during development either. If you are looking for a Python JIT, PyPy looks like a similar level of performance without such annoying vendored libraries. Cython will be consistently faster than either of them.