This is the second part of the article about pattern matching in Ruby; that article is itself a part of the series about recent language features, their de.
Codon is a new "high-performance Python compiler that compiles Python code to native machine code without any runtime overhead," according to its README file on GitHub.
Typical speedups over Python are on the order of 10-100x or more, on a single thread. Codon s performance is typically on par with.