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This is hardly breakthru stuff.
by ape4 13y ago
This is hardly breakthru stuff.
- phorese 13y agoTrue. It also never claims to be. The very first part says that this is only a writeup for people who are not intimately familiar with why "dynamically typed" might slow down Python.
- falcolas 13y agoBased off my own experience, dynamic typing has much less to do with slowness than the plethora of string copying which occurs in your typical python script.
- blt 13y agobut for scientific computing with numbers - the author's target audience - dynamic typing is the main bottleneck.
- dragonwriter 13y agoThere's ways to avoid that, where it matters, though its a pretty common thing in naive Python/Ruby, true.