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That's a question I have as well. I'm guessing they have a very massive cpython codebase, and the trade-off was worth it.
by matt_wulfeck 10y ago
That's a question I have as well. I'm guessing they have a very massive cpython codebase, and the trade-off was worth it.
- MBCook 10y agoI'd assume that's true, but they also didn't know how well this would work. A 'little' project to make Grumpy is probably much easier to sell to management/throw away if to slow than "Let's rewrite all our code in language X to see if it goes faster".