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The usual retort is "the scripting language is rarely the bottleneck" as well as "developer time is more expensive than hardware". Between these two get-out cl
by andybak 6y ago
The usual retort is "the scripting language is rarely the bottleneck" as well as "developer time is more expensive than hardware".
Between these two get-out clauses, aren't you talking about a very small minority of use-cases? Those where the scripting language is the bottleneck and the problem can't simply be solved by spending a few $ more on your VPS?
- pjmlp 6y agoI thought we were all discussing about going green and using less hardware. Plenty of languages offer JIT/AOT toolchains while offering scripting language tooling as well. Besides, my remark also applies to compiled languages when care is not taken for proper algorithms and data structures.
- StavrosK 6y ago> Plenty of languages offer JIT/AOT toolchains Like, for example, Python?
- pjmlp 6y agoNah, if you mean the black swan ignored by the Python community, thus forcing everyone that cares to go to Julia instead.
- ncmncm 6y agoCan you be specific about this, for those of us not especially aware of the Python ecosystem?
- pjmlp 6y agoPyPy is a Python implementation with JIT support, which has been going at it during the last 15 years or so, and nowadays is mostly compatible with the reference implementation. https://www.pypy.org/compat.html https://www.pypy.org/compat.html However for most Python users, it is more common just to stick with CPython and rewrite stuff in C than having a go at using PyPy.