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Python code gained 17x performance improvement over an older C implementation
- Someone 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21304861 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21304861 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21296704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21296704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21293995 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21293995 All in the past two days. And it isn’t “Python can be faster than C”, but “hash maps can be faster than linked lists” or “doing less can be faster” or “software designed decades ago doesn’t handle tens of thousands of users well”