[tlug] [Python-Dev] PyPy on PySide6 is there: PyPy with a Gui

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephenjturnbull@example.com>]

PyPy frequently runs about an order of magnitude faster than CPython,
so for you Pythonistas more impatient than I:

TA-DA!!!

You can now write a lot more games in pure Python!

(There are a couple of BCCs for people I don't think are TLUG
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Christian Tismer-Sperling writes:
 > Hi Guido et. al.,
 > 
 > since May 2021 I have been working at running PyPy on PySide6,
 > which was a difficult undertaking, since PyPy internally is quite
 > a bit different.
 > 
 > I declared the project to be ready-to-use when the Mandelbrot
 > example of the PySide examples
 >      (examples/corelib/threads/mandelbrot.py)
 > is working.
 > 
 > This was finally solved this week on 2022-02-01, so we have the
 > 
 >      first advanced Gui working with PyPy
 > 
 > and with the amazing result of speed:
 > 
 > PyPy 3.8 works
 >      10 times faster than the identical code on Python 3.10
 > and
 >      5.5 times slower than the same example in C++ Qt.
 > 
 > I think to send an official announce when this is available on pip.
 > 
 > This effort marks the completion of my PyPy support, which began
 > in 2003 and ended involuntarily in 2006 due to a stroke.
 > 
 > All the best -- Chris
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