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What makes you think I didn't? The author seems to agree with me. He even concludes that we should improve the implementation rather than the language for optim

• ynniv 14y ago
  No, the author concludes that languages based on hash table lookups and lacking copy avoidance mechanisms are inherently slower.
• masklinn 14y ago
  Which makes your comment useless and redundant. The very point of the presentation pretty much being "this declaration makes no sense"
• tptacek 14y ago
  I didn't get that from the presentation at all. What I read is a guy complaining that idiomatic Python is necessarily slow because it depends, for its clarity and terseness, on not controlling allocations or memory layout, and that Python- the- language abets the problem by having its standard library build on the same idiom.