by gerg.bowering » Thu Nov 17, 2011 11:08 pm
Besides PyPy support for Bots, organisers should consider running the game engine with PyPy as a faster alternative to CPython.
Faster game rate would benefit everyone, not just Python bots.
Update: Just installed and tested the PyPy 1.6 binary release for Win32. The engine performance was not noticably faster using PyPy 1.6 than under PythonC (3.2.2).
Both engine and Python starter bots ran using PyPy without modification, however the current Win32 PyPy build appears to be unstable and crashes frequently. Consequently I would not recommend it for Windows users.
PyPy is developed primarily on Linux, and the Linux builds are stable, so I'd be interested to hear if anyone has tried running games using PyPy on Linux.