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Firefox added Python support in the past and there was no uptake. Brendan Eich has a hnews comment on it. I think 2x-3x perf improvement /is/ possible. I mean
by bjwbell 12y ago
Firefox added Python support in the past and there was no uptake. Brendan Eich has a hnews comment on it.
I think 2x-3x perf improvement /is/ possible. I mean we have the example of javascript that went from terrible perf to almost native parity. Of course Mozilla & Google each dedicated an entire team to get there.
We already have the example of PyPy too which /today/ averages a >5x (http://speed.pypy.org/ http://speed.pypy.org/) speed up with CPython!
- juliangregorian 12y agoLooks like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3096459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3096459 is the Brendan Eich comment.
- BrendanEich 11y agoAnd again, recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9188011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9188011
- masklinn 12y ago> I mean we have the example of javascript that went from terrible perf to almost native parity. It didn't have the ecosystem of C extensibility and mature extensions Python has, which drive much of its adoption in e.g. scientific computing (a big factor for Pypy having trouble making inroads).