Download and install

There are nightly binary builds available. Those builds are not always as stable as the release, but they contain numerous bugfixes and performance improvements.

Here are the various binaries of PyPy 1.7 that we provide for x86 Linux, Mac OS/X or Windows.

“JIT Compiler” version

These binaries include a Just-in-Time compiler. They only work on x86 CPUs that have the SSE2 instruction set (most of them do, nowadays), or on x86-64 CPUs. They also contain stackless extensions, like greenlets. (This is the official release 1.7; for the most up-to-date version see below.)

If your CPU is really old, it may not have SSE2. In this case, you need to translate yourself with the option --jit-backend=x86-without-sse2.

Other versions

The other versions of PyPy are:

  • The most up-to-date nightly build with a JIT, if the official release is too old for what you want to do.
  • No JIT: A version without the JIT. Consumes a bit less memory and may be faster on short-running scripts.
  • Sandboxing: A special safe version. Read the docs about sandboxing. (It is also possible to translate a version that includes both sandboxing and the JIT compiler, although as the JIT is relatively complicated, this reduces a bit the level of confidence we can put in the result.)

These versions are not officially part of the release 1.7, which focuses on the JIT. You can find prebuilt binaries for them on our nightly build, or translate them yourself.

Installing

All binary versions are packaged in a tar.bz2 or zip file. When uncompressed, they run in-place. For now you can uncompress them either somewhere in your home directory or, say, in /opt, and if you want, put a symlink from somewhere like /usr/local/bin/pypy to /path/to/pypy-1.7/bin/pypy. Do not move or copy the executable pypy outside the tree – put a symlink to it, otherwise it will not find its libraries.

Building from source

  1. Get the source code. The following packages contain the source at the same revision as the above binaries:

    Or you can checkout the current trunk using Mercurial (the trunk usually works and is of course more up-to-date):

    hg clone https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy

  2. Make sure you installed the dependencies. See the list here.

  3. Enter the goal directory:

    cd pypy/pypy/translator/goal

  4. Run the translate.py script. Here are the common combinations of options (works also with python instead of pypy):

    pypy translate.py -Ojit                # get the JIT version
pypy translate.py -O2                  # get the no-jit version
pypy translate.py -O2 --sandbox        # get the sandbox version
pypy translate.py -Ojit --backend=cli  # only for branch/cli-jit

  5. Enjoy Mandelbrot :-) It takes on the order of half an hour to finish the translation, and 2.x GB of RAM on a 32-bit system and 4.x GB on 64-bit systems. (Do not start a translation on a machine with insufficient RAM! It will just swap forever. See notes below in that case.)

Notes:

  • It is recommended to use PyPy to do translations, instead of using CPython, because it is twice as fast. You should just start by downloading an official release of PyPy (with the JIT). If you really have to use CPython then note that we are talking about CPython 2.5-2.7 here, not CPython 3.x.

  • If RAM usage is a problem (or if you are on Windows, because win32's limit is 2 GB unless you hack a lot), then you can (for now) tweak some parameters via environment variables and command-line options. The following command takes a bit more time, but finishes with only using 3.0 GB of RAM (on Linux 64-bit; probably not much more than 1.6 GB on 32-bit). It should be noted that it is less than with CPython.

    PYPY_GC_MAX_DELTA=200MB pypy --jit loop_longevity=300 ./translate.py -Ojit

  • Because of asmgcroot, compiling the generated C files containing the JIT is delicate. It requires using either MSVC or gcc with no particularly fancy options. It does not work e.g. with clang, or if you pass uncommon options with the CFLAGS environment variable. You can also try to compile PyPy with the shadow stack option.

Packaging

Once PyPy is translated from source the binary package similar to those provided in the section Default (with a JIT Compiler) above could be easily created with package.py script as following:

cd ./pypy/pypy/tool/release/
python package.py ../../.. pypy-my-own-package-name

Checksums

Here are the checksums for each of the downloads (md5 and sha1):

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