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I don't understand why is it compared to C, when it can be compared to Perl or PHP, which are also dynamically typed, interpreted, etc, but much faster.
by mahouse 12y ago
I don't understand why is it compared to C, when it can be compared to Perl or PHP, which are also dynamically typed, interpreted, etc, but much faster.
- masklinn 12y ago1. Because TFA is about scientific computing 2. And in that context (and most others), the difference between Perl, PHP and CPython is basically non-existent, you might get 2x on one bench, half on the other