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Please make sure to run the tests (`make check`) on your changes.
If you don't know where to start:
- Check out the list of [starter projects](https://github.com/dropbox/pyston/wiki/Starter-projects)
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Currently, Pyston targets Python 2.7, only runs on x86_64 platforms, and only has been tested on Ubuntu. Support for more platforms -- along with Python 3 compatibility -- is planned for the future, but this is the initial target due to the fact that Dropbox is on this setup internally.
> Note: Pyston does not currently work on Mac OSX, but is being actively worked on; stay tuned on [pyston-dev](http://lists.pyston.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pyston-dev) to hear when it does.
Benchmarks are not currently that meaningful since the supported set of benchmarks is too small to be representative; with that caveat, Pyston seems to have better performance than CPython but lags behind PyPy.
##### Contributing
Pyston welcomes any sorts of contributions; please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/dropbox/pyston/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.
### Roadmap
Pyston is still an early-stage project so it is hard to project with much certainty, but here's what we're planning at the moment: