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Well, glad he's coming around. Years back he seemed to stand by the notion that Python wasn't slow, showing a toy example. I remember thinking it was just con
by axaxs 5y ago
Well, glad he's coming around. Years back he seemed to stand by the notion that Python wasn't slow, showing a toy example. I remember thinking it was just condescending, whether intentional or not.
- takeda 5y agoI think years ago things were much different, also even today that might still be true. Among interpreted languages python is/was one of the faster ones. NodeJS has similar speed, and in some cases is faster. I don't know any other interpreted language though. People are also complaining about GIL, but ironically NodeJS is single threaded.
- qsort 5y agoNodejs is much faster than Python even for workloads where there's overlap in use-cases, like webapis and scripting. The only production language with performance in the ballpark of Python is Ruby. I agree that more often than not it simply isn't an issue, but CPython performance isn't much far ahead of toy languages, for a whole lot of reasons that we are all sick and tired of hearing.