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		kingkilr on March 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unladen Swallow Retrospective The primary legacy of Unladen Swallow (this was something that everyone agreed on at the VM summit at PyCon) were: a) improvements to LLVM for all users of its JIT, things like valgrind and GDB integration, lifting that 16 MB of machine code, and fixing various bugs, b) developing a cohesive set of benchmarks for the Python community, and c) drawing more attention to the idea of a fast Python.

cdavid on March 27, 2011 [–]

B is especially important for python people - it is my understanding that a lot of pypy current benchmarks are coming from unladen swallow.

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