Lets Talk About Something Diabolical: A PyPy Intro (David Beazley PyCon keynote)

I didn't get a chance to see this at PyCon, but wow, this video really helped me understand some of the fundamentals of PyPy. (For example, I had no idea it didn't have a parser, and instead only acts on the intermediate representation of Python bytecode.)<p>Also, David Beazley has a great way of making difficult concepts approachable.

I do nothing with Python and I couldn't care less about Python, but... I really enjoyed this video. Great talk!

This keynote was by far the highlight of PyCon for me. I hope to hear David speak again soon.

That was great. PyPy looks like a great bytecode equivalent to what is happening with other languages and he does highlight this "disconnect" that is raised by new approaches that produce amazing results. He even got a async node joke in there, cracked me up.

Can somebody explain the end of lecture?<p>Why Ruby and PyPy looks similar in this benchmark?

The RPython translation to C sounds a lot like what cython is already doing with a subset of Python. Are the PyPy guys reinventing the wheel here?