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Before a pull request can be merged, you need to to sign the [Dropbox Contributor License Agreement](https://opensource.dropbox.com/cla/).
Please make sure to run the tests (`make check`) on your changes.
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)
- Email the [pyston-dev mailing list](http://lists.pyston.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pyston-dev), or [browse the archives](http://lists.pyston.org/pipermail/pyston-dev/)
- Join us on [#pyston](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=pyston) on freenode.
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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.
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.
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
### 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:
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:
