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Every time someone talks about inherent interpreter overhead, I like to remind of k[1][2], which is faster than c despite being a relatively naive interpreter.
by moonchild 6y ago
Every time someone talks about inherent interpreter overhead, I like to remind of k[1][2], which is faster than c despite being a relatively naive interpreter.
1. https://kx.com/ https://kx.com/
2. https://shakti.com/ https://shakti.com/
- tom_mellior 6y agoPython is also blazingly fast when your Python program spends 99% of its time outside of Python and inside some highly optimized library like NumPy. That's because the interpreter overhead doesn't matter when you are not interpreting.
- clarry 6y agoIt doesn't make much sense to say that an application written in C is faster than C (unless it includes a compiler and recompiles itself..). Ok, well, they probably aren't using C today, but I doubt their implementation language is significantly faster than C.