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Google Summer of Code 2010 Python Software Foundation

Unladen Swallow - Memory Reduction

by Steven Noonan for Python Software Foundation

Unladen Swallow offers some magnificent performance improvements over the CPython interpretation method. Unfortunately, the Just-in-Time compiler used by Unladen Swallow currently incurs a hefty memory overhead which needs to be reduced before Unladen Swallow can be merged into CPython.