On my machine, Jython runs 1.4 times slower than python3, that is almost
double the speed of python-on-guile.

I attach the script which can be run by simply typing, e.g.,

  python3 ramanujan20.py

and should print out

  262656

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 11:05 PM Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/23/21 8:00 AM, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yesterday, Andy committed new code to the compiler, some of which
> concerned
> > skipping some arity checking.
> >
> > Also, Stefan meanwhile committed something called "reworked object
> system"
> > to his python-on-guile.
> >
> > Sorry for coming with unspecific information (don't have time to track
> down
> > the details) but I noticed that my benchmark script written in Python,
> and
> > which computes the 20:th Ramanujan number, now runs 60% faster than
> before
> > these changes.
> >
> > This means that python-on-guile running on guile3 master executes python
> > code only 2.6 times slower than the CPython python3 interpreter itself.
> :-)
> >
> > Have a nice weekend all,
> > Mikael
> A fun comparison might be python-on-guile3 vs Jython.
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