Comment by CamouflagedKiwi
5 hours ago
> You'd think PyPy would be more popular, then.
PyPy doesn't do anything to help startup time. In fact, it's typically a bit slower to start up than CPython.
You reap the speed benefits from PyPy once it's been running for a little while and it can JIT compile the hot bits of code.
> PyPy doesn't do anything to help startup time. In fact, it's typically a bit slower to start up than CPython.
Considerably slower on my machine. Yes, that was my point. If the community doesn't care about startup time, you'd expect more adoption of an implementation that sacrifices that startup time for later performance.