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That's like saying "you can compile C to x86 ASM, so C is as fast as assembly" Abstraction has costs. They can be reduced, but they don't evaporate.
by Kapura 10y ago
That's like saying "you can compile C to x86 ASM, so C is as fast as assembly"
Abstraction has costs. They can be reduced, but they don't evaporate.
- icebraining 10y agoMy point is that "fast as C" is meaningless. You can write quite abstract/unoptimized C. And you can write Python code with a few Cython-specific annotations that rival "regular" C code.