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The guy again gets his name in the headline. There has been no shortage of plans how to speed up CPython in the past 20 years. How about delivering a working pr

• brokencode 5y ago
  His name lends a lot of credibility to anything he does with Python, and that's why this effort is notable. He is the founder and longtime BDFL of the language, and presumably knows what he is talking about when he says he can get big performance improvements.
  • IshKebab 5y ago
    I don't know if overseeing one of the slowest mainstream languages there is for decades gives me much hope that he knows what he's talking about when it comes to performance improvements.
• iqanq 5y ago
  Ten years ago he didn't think Python was slow: https://lwn.net/Articles/486908/ https://lwn.net/Articles/486908/
  • igouy 5y ago
    "InfoWorld: You answered critics who said that Python is too slow. You said every time you try to write something in Python, it is fast enough. Why is there criticism that it is too slow?" "At some point, you end up with one little piece of your system, as a whole, where you end up spending all your time. If you write that just as a sort of simple-minded Python loop, at some point you will see that that is the bottleneck in your system. It is usually much more effective to take that one piece and replace that one function or module with a little bit of code you wrote in C or C++ rather than rewriting your entire system in a faster language, because for most of what you're doing, the speed of the language is irrelevant."