Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Psyco is a specializing just-in-time compiler for Python originally developed by Armin Rigo and further maintained and developed by Christian Tismer. Psyco runs on BSD-derived operating systems, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows using 32-bit Intel-compatible processors. Psyco is written in C and generates only x86-based code. A follow-up project to Psyco is PyPy, which incorporates an interpreter and a compiler that can generate C, improving its cross-platform compatibility over Psyco. Both parts are written in Python, but the interpreter is restricted to a subset of Python, called RPython. Psyco can noticeably speed up CPU-bound applications. The actual performance depends greatly on the application and varies from a slight slowdown to a 100x speedup.

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