[viff-devel] [issue51] Psyco

[Martin Geisler]

New submission from Martin Geisler <mg at daimi.au.dk>:

>From http://psyco.sourceforge.net/introduction.html:

  Psyco is a specializing compiler. In a few words let us first see:

  What you can do with it
  =======================

  In short: run your existing Python software much faster, with no
  change in your source.

  Think of Psyco as a kind of just-in-time (JIT) compiler, a little
  bit like what exists for other languages, that emit machine code on
  the fly instead of interpreting your Python program step by step.
  The difference with the traditional approach to JIT compilers is
  that Psyco writes several version of the same blocks (a block is a
  bit of a function), which are optimized by being specialized to some
  kinds of variables (a "kind" can mean a type, but it is more
  general). The result is that your unmodified Python programs run
  faster.

I have tried using Psyco in benchmark.py when running all three
players on the same machine and I got a speedup from 17 to 15 seconds
when doing 5000 multiplications.

But we should test is some more to determine if it can help us.

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