It's impressive that they were able to beat 2009Q1 even by using LLVM naively. Looks like their first few releases are the software analog of Intel's tick-tock strategy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Tick-Tock), and it looks like we're in for a hell of a 'tock' in 3 months. Keep up the good work guys!

I agree. I think that unladen-swallow has the potential to be a groundbreaking project not only for Python, but for all dynamic languages.

Great to see they are making progress, sucks about the memory. I'm really looking forward to the day this gets merged back into the core python distribution.