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Yes, I’m aware of the Smalltalk miracle. Google wasn’t alone in optimizing JS, it actually came late, Safari and Firefox were already competing and improving t
by tambourine_man 4y ago
Yes, I’m aware of the Smalltalk miracle.
Google wasn’t alone in optimizing JS, it actually came late, Safari and Firefox were already competing and improving their runtime speeds, though V8 did doubled down on the bet of a fast JS machine.
The question is why there isn’t enough money, given that there obviously is a lot of interest from big players.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> The question is why there isn’t enough money, given that there obviously is a lot of interest from big players. I'd argue that there wasn't actually much interest until recently, and that's because it is only recently that interest in the CPython ecosystem has intersected with interest in speed that has money behind it, because of the sudden broad relevance to commercial business of the Python scientific stack for data science. Both Unladen Swallow and IronPython were driven by interest in Python as a scripting language in contexts detached from, or at least not necessarily attached to, the existing CPython ecosystem.
- tambourine_man 4y agoProbably. I’m not a heavy Python user. A better question would be to ask where Python is slow today and if it matters to big business, then. It rules in AI, for instance. Is it still mainly glue code for GPU execution and performance isn’t at all critical there?