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		bradknowles on June 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine written ... I’m curious how the code is sped up with pypy and why that helps? What does pypy bring to this situation?

detaro on June 1, 2019 [–]

PyPy is a JIT-based interpreter for Python - code that loops a lot over similar data structures is a natural candidate for being faster if jit-ed.

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