No. Before it was known as PyPy, PyPy was known as Psyco. I remembered playing with it. In Pressyo's internal documentation there were many mentions of using Psyco (we never actually ended up using it)

I think Psyco was a separate code base, and not an actual progenitor of PyPy.

Ahhh... I see I was mistaken. Both are projects by Armin. I thought Psyco became PyPy

Working pypy was released before that. The first release that had a JIT that made stuff faster was released in 2010. So a lot of codebase is much older than that.