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More work than JIT compiling Python?

• qsort 4y ago
  There's over 200k loc of Python in numpy alone, so yeah, it's the same order of magnitude of work to end up with a credible alternative.
  • brrrrrm 4y ago
    hmm, there's 1.6M lines of C++ in V8. And that's not a collection of simple mathematical functions - it's an entire compiler with many interdependent components. I think there's this weird but popular idea that people think it's easier to build a fast language than port a couple hundred independent functions.