I am surprised PyPy has such a huge lead over Python. $ time python pyrb.py real... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		kev6168 on April 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming language ray tracing benchmarks projec... I am surprised PyPy has such a huge lead over Python. `$ time python pyrb.py real 348m35.965s user 345m51.776s sys 0m22.880s $ time pypy pyrb.py real 14m2.406s user 13m55.292s sys 0m1.416s`

X6S1x6Okd1st on April 25, 2019 | [–]

Raytracing is a pretty great place to apply pypy, you have a very heavy loop that will hit the JIT.

I've certainly seen speedups like that on stuff like project euler code.

FartyMcFarter on April 25, 2019 | [–]

10-100x speedup seems normal for CPython vs well compiled code. I don't have experience with PyPy though, so in this specific case I'm not sure.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact