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>Yup.. a 240x performance difference (zig-py) has very little to do with the language, vm, or whatever. It absolutely does. A simple for loop in the standard P
by logicchains 4y ago
>Yup.. a 240x performance difference (zig-py) has very little to do with the language, vm, or whatever.
It absolutely does. A simple for loop in the standard Python interpreter will literally take 100x longer than the same thing in a language like C/C++, try for yourself if you don't believe me. CPython is unbelievably slow.
- jbverschoor 4y agoVery interesting... Simple loop (0 -> 320000000) and add 1 to a variable. I couldn't reproduce 100x (no optimization flags, otherwise it won't do anything) Apple clang version 14.0.0 (clang-1400.0.29.102) -> 0m0.347s ruby 3.1.2p20 -> 0m11.314s Python 3.8.12 -> 0m19.662s So ruby is almost 60% faster, but the C version is "only" 32x faster than ruby. 55x python. I thought the differences would be smaller these days