It allows you to compute approximations to an arbitrary degree of precision, and, contrary to most other libraries, guarantees that all digits it displays are correct.
目前支援的常數與操作有這些:
Constants: pi, e, phi
Functions related to powers: sqrt, exp, log
Operators: negation, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, powers
Trigonometric functions: sin, sinh, csc, csch, cos, cosh, sec, sech, tan, tanh, cot, coth
Our original product, which we’re retroactively calling Pyston-full, is a fork of the entire CPython codebase. Having users install a fully-custom version of Python lets us make changes across the Python implementation, leading to the most optimizations and largest speedups.
但這種方式的安裝與維護都需要另外搞,而且因為 ABI 不相容的問題,遇到一些套件可能會需要自己編 (甚至自己改?),不能直接用編好的 binary:
The flip side is that it is fairly intensive to set up. While we believe Pyston-full is one of the most highly-compatible alternative Python implementations available, it can be difficult to switch Python implementations regardless of the ease of use of either implementation. Compounded on this, we decided to break the ABI which requires users to recompile extension modules. In theory this is not a big deal, but in practice the lack of available binary packages is a significant disincentive to use an alternative implementation.
The sum of all of this was that while we were very happy to achieve a 30% speedup with Pyston-full, it was very difficult to get people to start using it. We decided to try a different form factor: a pip-installable extension module called Pyston-lite.
但效能的提昇就不像 Pyston-full 這麼高,Pyston-lite 只剩下 10% 了:
So while it’s a bit difficult to accept that we are now providing a 10% speedup instead of 30%, we’ve decided that it’s much more important to provide something that people are willing to use.
In the longer-term future we are planning to submit our JIT upstream as well, but we expect retargeting it to 3.11 to be significantly more work than the other versions due to the extensive amount of changes that were made to the interpreter in that version.
All in all, I created over 200 such packages and equipped them with a small program and uploaded them over the course of several months. The idea is to add some code to the packages that is executed whenever the package is downloaded with the installing user rights.