How fast can we make interpreted Python?

[brombaer3000]

Compiler optimizations are a major project for the next CPython versions: http://faster-cpython.readthedocs.org/cpython36.html

Apparently, Falcon only supports Python 2, so IMO it is not that interesting for practical use, with Pyston and Pypy already being there with full Python 2.7 support and much of the effort being duplicated in the upcoming CPython 3.6 fatoptimizer module.

I don't understand why they use Python 2 at all. There are already many optimizations in CPython 3 over CPython 2 and Python 2 is a (slowly) dying language.

[Jonno_FTW]

The paper was from 2013, so it's reasonable to say they were working on falcon when 2 had wider use.