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Here's the doc page that lists the supported language features: http://pythonhosted.org/hope/lang.html

Compared to numba, it looks like hope adds: (1) support for recursion, (2) automatic simplification of expressions using SymPy and (3) support for arithmetic with array broadcasting (e.g., as used in their Point Spread Function benchmark).

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Interesting post. It seems that everyone wants to write their own jit rather than cooperate with the on-going open source efforts. 1) Support for recursion is in a PR for Numba that has just not yet been merged. 2) optional simplification of expressions using SymPy has been contemplated and is easy to add, though it's not clear if it's the interface people will want as it slows down compilation. 3) Numba has support for some array broadcasting via vectorize and is getting more in the coming 6 months.

A C++ target for Numba would also be of interest if anyone wants to participate in the development. Numba 0.15.1 was just released this week: https://github.com/numba/numba/tree/0.15.1 http://numba.pydata.org

conda install numba

Totally agreed, I am much more excited about Numba right now. Numba has some really nice tricks up its sleeve -- I especially like the ability to easily write (g)ufuncs.

There are a lot of edge cases to nail down for these JIT compilers. Everyone writing their own is likely to end up with none of them being useful for end users.

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for.

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