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This reminds me -- very tenuously -- of how the shorthand for very good performance in the Python community is "like C". In the C community, we know that progr

This reminds me -- very tenuously -- of how the shorthand for very good performance in the Python community is "like C". In the C community, we know that programs have different performance depending on algorithms chosen..

Jtsummers 1y ago
> In the C community, we know that programs have different performance depending on algorithms chosen.. Yes. Only the C community knows this. What a silly remark. Regarding the "Python community" remark, benchmarks against C and Fortran go back decades now. It's not just a Python thing. C people push it a lot, too.