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Erlang vs. Unintentionally Purely Functional Python
- nimrody 16y agoThis shouldn't have reached the frontpage. Nothing interesting or new here - Python's memory allocation scheme and garbage collector aren't state of the art.
- masklinn 16y agoThe post isn't even about memory allocation or garbage collection, it's only about Python's strings being immutable, yet being fast enough (nb: Java would probably have been a better choice as its strings are also immutable, though the allocation strategy is probably harder to walk through), therefore functional languages being slow because they don't mutate stuff is a lie. Pretty much the tl;dr.