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“We need more performance, should we fix the underlying performance problem in our software? No, we should design our CPU’s to accommodate our slow, bottlenecke
by FridgeSeal 6y ago
“We need more performance, should we fix the underlying performance problem in our software? No, we should design our CPU’s to accommodate our slow, bottlenecked language!”
Asking for CPU features to speed up Python is like trying to strap a rocket to horse and cart. Not the best way to go faster. We should focus on language design and tooling that makes it easier to write in “fast” languages, rather than bending over backwards to accommodate things like Python, which have so much more low-hanging fruit in terms of performance.
- pwdisswordfish4 6y ago> “fast” languages What are those?
- FridgeSeal 6y agoC++, Rust, .Net would qualify, Go (doesn’t have a “release mode as such, but achieved decent speed), Julia, etc Anything that makes an actual attempt at optimising for performance.
- pwdisswordfish4 6y ago> .Net Not a programming language. (And you seemed to have missed the point; a "fast language" is essentially a nonsense term.) > Anything that makes an actual attempt at optimising for performance. So something like any of the modern JS engines...?