Dynamic Languages Strike Back. Some guys at Stanford invited me to speak at their EE Computer Systems Colloquium last week.
Pretty cool, eh? It was quite an honor. I wound up giving a talk on dynamic languages: the tools, the performance, the history, the religion, everything. Dynamic Languages Strike Back. PyPy faster than C on a carefully crafted example. Good day everyone.
Recent round of optimizations, especially loop invariant code motion has been very good for small to medium examples. There is work ongoing to make them scale to larger ones, however there are few examples worth showing how well they perform.