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> Most languages with enough optimization works can be made performant enough that it's no slower than 10x C. Maybe if we take the slowest C program, CPython n
by igouy 3y ago
> Most languages with enough optimization works can be made performant enough that it's no slower than 10x C.
Maybe if we take the slowest C program, CPython no slower than 50x ?
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/python3-gcc.html https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
- lifthrasiir 3y agoCPython had many other concerns besides from performance, and PyPy is much closer to my quote I believe.
- igouy 3y agofwiw "How many lines of C it takes to execute a + b in Python" was explicitly about CPython. fwiw PyPy doesn't seem to have been released in "the late 1990s".