What’s new in PyPy xxx¶
Fixed the performance of gc.get_referrers()
Provides cppyy module (disabled by default) for access to C++ through Reflex. See doc/cppyy.rst for full details and functionality.
Check that axis arg is valid in _numpypy
Remove numpy lazy evaluation and simplify everything
Support for array[array-of-ints] in numpy
Implement better JIT hooks
Improve handling of **kwds greatly, making them virtual sometimes.
Introduce __int128 on systems where it’s supported and improve the speed of rlib/rbigint.py greatly.
Start to clean up a bit the flow object space.
Support CFFI. https://morepypy.blogspot.ch/2012/08/cffi-release-03.html
The stdlib was updated to version 2.7.3
Complex dtype support for numpy
Improve dtypes intp, uintp, void, string and record
Add float16 numpy dtype
major cleanups including killing some object support
implement threadstate-related functions in cpyext
add dict/list/set strategies optimized for unicode items
Support for utf-8 encoding in RPython
Support ARM in the JIT.