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PyPy - the new Python implementation on the block

Armin Rigo, Carl Friedrich Bolz and Holger Krekel

We present our first self-contained Python virtual machine that uses parts of itself to translate itself to low level languages ("the Muenchhausen approach"). The PyPy approach could solve problems at language/interpreter-level that formerly required complex frameworkish solutions at user-level.