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You find it unlikely a compiled language is faster than an interpreted one...?
by drivebyacct2 14y ago
You find it unlikely a compiled language is faster than an interpreted one...?
- gngeal 14y agoSometimes, with smart data structures for specialized cases (persistency, better asymptotic behaviour etc.), it can happen that memory accesses dominate the actual execution. If that happens, and you can't saturate CPU's execution units, the difference between an efficient interpreter and a compiler gets smeared very quickly.
- Evbn 14y agoPython is compiled. That is the c in .pyc
- drivebyacct2 14y agoSorta, not really the point though. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2998215/if-python-is-interpreted-what-are-pyc-files http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2998215/if-python-is-inte...