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In response to c, pypy has been getting ridiculously fast as of late. In some very specific (ie pointless) benchmarks, it can outperform C [1]. And it's only ge
by conroy 15y ago
In response to c, pypy has been getting ridiculously fast as of late. In some very specific (ie pointless) benchmarks, it can outperform C [1]. And it's only getting faster [2].
[1] http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-is-faster-than-c-again-string.html http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-is-faster-than-c-a...
[2] http://speed.pypy.org/ http://speed.pypy.org/
- shin_lao 15y agoEvery language has got at least one benchmark saying "We're faster than C".
- ajays 15y agoI was about to post that. Someone once joked, "a language isn't mature until it has a benchmark showing that it is faster than C".
- TeMPOraL 15y agoIt's good to know that, thanks :). I'll look into PyPy if I ever start doing some serious work in Python.