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Moar JIT news

Hello there, I thought it high time to write to you again and update you on the world of JITs. Since last I wrote, PyPy 4.0 was released. Also in python-land, Pyston 0.4 was released, and finally Guile 2.1.1 was released and Andy Wingo wrote a nice piece about that, as is his custom. I present these links not only to give these projects the attention they deserve, but also because I think they are relevant to our own project. In chronological order, the release of PyPy 4.0 marked the first 'production' release of that projects' autovectorizer, which was developed over the course of this years Google Summer of Code. I'd like to take this opportunity to publicly congratulate the PyPy team on this achievement. So called 'vector' or SIMD operations perform a computation on multiple values in a single step and are an essential component of high-performance numerical computations. Autovectorizing refers to the compiler capability to automatically use such operat