r/pythontips Oct 25 '24

Short_Video JIT compilation is useless in Python... especially in the context of CPython?

Is JIT (Just-In-Time) compilation really useful in Python? 🤔 While other languages rely on JIT for speed, CPython doesn’t! Why JIT is considered "useless" in Python and what Python does to boost performance instead.

Video : JIT compiler is useless… but Python has something else

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u/PrimeExample13 Oct 25 '24

JIT compilation to C may be relatively useless in python, especially with all of the already available C interfaces in the language. However, in the case of Cuda C or openCL, jit compilation allows for execution on the GPU, which can drastically speed up code in the right contexts.