#347: Cinder - Specialized Python that Flies

Talk Python To Me

Episode | Podcast

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0800

The team at Instagram dropped a performance bomb on the Python world when they open-sourced Cider, their performance oriented fork of CPython. It contains a number of performance optimizations, including bytecode inline caching, eager evaluation of coroutines, a method-at-a-time JIT, and an experimental bytecode compiler that uses type annotations to emit type-specialized bytecode that performs better in the JIT.