Ask HN: Is anybody using PyPy interpreter for big data, or machine learning?

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PyPy2.7 is very good for preprocessing tasks not delegated to C code. On one of them I got 2x speed improvement without code rewrite. For some reason PyPy3* is slower than CPython. It has less sense if we talk about using sklearn. Python here not doing any work, it just calls C-modules.