CinderX

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CinderX is a Python extension that improves the performance of the Python runtime.

Status

CinderX is under active development. It is used in production at Meta for use-cases like the Instagram Django service. It is experimental for external users. New releases are published to PyPI on a weekly basis.

Features

  • JIT Compiler - Just-in-time compilation of Python bytecode to native machine code
  • Static Python - A stricter form/subset of Python, for type safety and optimization

The codebase includes other features as well, such as a parallel garbage collector and a lighter weight implementation of Python interpreter frames. However these features are not compatible with the stock CPython runtime yet.

Requirements

  • Python 3.14.3 or later
  • Linux (x86_64)
  • GCC 13+ or Clang 18+

The extension should build and import on macOS but most features will be disabled at runtime. Windows is not yet supported at all.

Installation

pip install cinderx

Using the JIT

The recommended way to start using the JIT is to do:

import cinderx.jit

cinderx.jit.auto()

This will configure the CinderX extension to automatically compile Python functions to machine code. It will track what functions are called frequently and compile the hottest ones automatically.

For more control over this process, you can pass the call count threshold to use for compilation instead of using auto():

import cinderx.jit

# Compile functions after they are called 10 times.
cinderx.jit.compile_after_n_calls(10)

If you want to compile individual functions, you can do so manually:

import cinderx.jit

def foo(): ...
def bar(): ...

# Compile `foo` immediately.
cinderx.jit.force_compile(foo)

# Compile `bar` the next time it is called.
cinderx.jit.lazy_compile(bar)

CinderX vs Cinder

Cinder was a fork of the CPython runtime developed at Meta. It included runtime optimizations (e.g. JIT) and was specifically targeted at the Instagram Django codebase. For Python 3.10, Meta decided to turn it into a Python extension to improve compatibility with newer Python versions. This extension is now known as CinderX ("the X" is for "extension").

For Python versions 3.10 through 3.12, CinderX still depends on patches to Meta's fork of the Python runtime. Python 3.14 is the first version of stock CPython that CinderX supports.

License

CinderX is MIT licensed, see the LICENSE file.

Terms of Use

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Copyright © 2025 Meta Platforms, Inc.

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Newer release available (2026.8.17.0)

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Requires

Python <3.16, >=3.14.0

Tags

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