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Who cares about "pure" Python? The whole point is that you have powerful libraries at your fingertips and you can leverage those to get fast code. Can you do th
by bornfreddy 4y ago
Who cares about "pure" Python? The whole point is that you have powerful libraries at your fingertips and you can leverage those to get fast code. Can you do the same in Go? JavaScript? PHP?
I'm tired of people comparing languages but then leaving out the major winning points for Python. Numpy & co. are integral part of Python, no serious ddv would use just "pure" Python for numerical methods, ever. So let's compare real'world Python, shall we? I doubt Go has a chance then. /rant
- TheRealPomax 4y agoTurns out other people don't care if you're tired of something, because they're not you. Plenty of folks do care about how much pure Python has improved. That's how it got to the front page. If you want to test baseline performance, you want a little program that's small enough to be easily understood, but just elaborate enough to hit enough of the standard programming patterns. So it's basically irrelevant what this code actually does, we're just looking at how much faster Python has gotten. Because that's something we care about. We don't care that "go is faster" or "C is faster", we use Python and we like to know that the newer versions actually are substantially better than the older versions we used to (or still have to) work with.