Codon

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A high-performance, zero-overhead, extensible Python compiler using LLVM

Features

• A high-performance compiler that compiles Python code to native machine code with no runtime overhead
• Speedup of 10–100x or more over Python on a single thread
• Performance is on par with, and sometimes better than, C/C++
• Unlike Python, supports native multithreading
• Codon supports almost all of Python's syntax, but it is not a drop-in replacement. Large codebases need modifications

See also

• Cython
• Nuitka - converts Python modules into C-level programs, then uses libpython and C files to behave like CPython
• Numba
• llvmlite
• PyPy
• Pyjion - A drop-in JIT Compiler for Python 3.10

Favorite site

• Github - exaloop/codon
• kostya/jit-benchmarks: Benchmark for interpreted languages implementations. - Python (Cpython, Graal, Pypy, Cython, Jython, Nuitka, Mypyc, Codon)