pypy is an alternate implementation of Python [1], implemented in Python
itself, together with a set of tools for compiling that implementation
down to C code. The resulting implementation can, in theory, be faster
than the regular "CPython" implementation we know as /usr/bin/python
I've managed to package up pypy for Fedora; I've opened up a review
request for it here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588941
Anyone feel like reviewing it?
You can download F-13 packages from the scratch build here:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2147291
Upstream pypy is working on implementing the C extension module API, so
in theory we could try recompiling our python extension modules against
pypy at some future point. I don't yet know if that's going to be
feasible in the F14 timescale, or if we're looking at further in the
future.
Hope this is useful
Dave
[1]
http://pypy.org/