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Your 0 link doesn't actually support your claim. Dropbox abandoned their incompatible python 2 jit compiler. Pypy remains available and there was really no poi
by y4mi 8y ago
Your 0 link doesn't actually support your claim.
Dropbox abandoned their incompatible python 2 jit compiler. Pypy remains available and there was really no point in having another around.
And Guido had nothing to do with that decision afaict.
Finally, the reason why they dropped it is absolutely correct. Python isn't meant to be used for performance critical work. Python is however fast enough for most usecases - especially with pypy, but definitely not all.
- Eug894 8y agoWhy not have single language for all kinds of work? And why not spend some tiny part of those money dedicated to improving hardware by 2x-3x, when there are people [0] claiming Python run-time has potential to 1000x speed-up? I know, I know, it will make manual optimization job nonsense, and everyone needs a job nowadays it seems... [0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/hardware/david-patterson-says-its-time-for-new-computer-architectures-and-software-languages https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/har...
- y4mi 8y agoDid you actually read that link? Yes, you can have a substantial performance boost for python by rewriting it fully in c... But that's exactly like saying that c performance is substantially better than Python's.