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<h1 class="title">Welcome to PyPy</h1>
<p>PyPy is a <a class="reference external" href="http://speed.pypy.org/">fast</a>, <a class="reference external" href="compat.html">compliant</a> alternative implementation of the <a class="reference external" href="http://python.org/">Python</a>
language (2.7.13 and 3.5.3, 3.6). It has several advantages and distinct features:</p>
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<li><p class="first"><strong>Speed:</strong> thanks to its Just-in-Time compiler, Python programs
often run <a class="reference external" href="http://speed.pypy.org/">faster</a> on PyPy. <a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation">(What is a JIT compiler?)</a></p>
<p>“If you want your code to run faster, you should probably just use PyPy.”
— Guido van Rossum (creator of Python)</p>
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<li><p class="first"><strong>Memory usage:</strong> memory-hungry Python programs (several hundreds of
MBs or more) might end up taking <a class="reference external" href="http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2009/10/gc-improvements.html">less space</a> than they do in CPython.</p>
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<li><p class="first"><strong>Compatibility:</strong> PyPy is <a class="reference external" href="compat.html">highly compatible</a> with existing python code.
It supports <a class="reference external" href="https://cffi.readthedocs.org">cffi</a> and can run popular python libraries like <a class="reference external" href="https://twistedmatrix.com/">twisted</a>
and <a class="reference external" href="https://www.djangoproject.com/">django</a>.</p>
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<li><p class="first"><strong>Stackless:</strong> PyPy comes by default with support for <a class="reference external" href="features.html#stackless">stackless mode</a>,
providing micro-threads for massive concurrency.</p>
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<li><p class="first">As well as other <a class="reference external" href="features.html">features</a>.</p>
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