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		jashmatthews on May 20, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python performance: it’s not just the interpreter PyPy supports C extensions as does GraalPython.

fastball on May 20, 2020 [–]

Not out of the box.

For example, the fastest (and my favorite) JSON (de)serializer available for Python, orjson[1], does not support pypy.

[1] https://github.com/ijl/orjson

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