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It is funny to see this comment get "-4" already... What's so offensive? After all, Facebook has rocksdb in C++, percona in java, and a PHP->C++ compiler, so th

by stmw 9y ago

It is funny to see this comment get "-4" already... What's so offensive? After all, Facebook has rocksdb in C++, percona in java, and a PHP->C++ compiler, so they clearly have both the belief and the skill in moving away from interpreted programming languages for performance-sensitive code.

linkmotif 9y ago
For some reason, people are offended by gross misunderstandings. This framework is in Python, but it’s a Python binding that sets up code that runs natively (not even sure the details myself; others are writing CUDA). TensorFlow is the same way. It’s in Python, but the computations are not in Python. As you point out, that wouldn’t make sense.
- stmw 9y ago
  Having written Python -> C bindings before, I am quite aware of how this works... It still has considerable overheads.
  - linkmotif 9y ago
    But these aren’t those kind of binding. Here the Python just sets things up, and that’s the end of Python. That’s my understanding.
sankalp_sans 9y ago
More downvotes. Tough crowd :)