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by peheje 8y ago
Really excited to see Nim here on top of HN. I wish it would gain more traction. I like the pythonic syntax and easy 'fast code'.
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by peheje 8y ago
Python is awesome don't get me wrong. I have limited knowledge about it, but mainly it isn't version 1.0 yet so the std lib stills changes and has some quirks/missing pieces or pieces that are not quite aligned yet. The packa
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by peheje 8y ago
Nim is a language that mimicks python syntax but compiles down to c. Really cool and easily gives you 'fast code'. If you are into this kind of stuff I would recommend you take a look. https://nim-lang.org/
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by peheje 9y ago
Could you elaborate on exactly what you dislike about these features? Or why they seem like an afterthought?
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by peheje 9y ago
As I'm aware of Python dictionaries are not supported by Numba, however it will still run in "object mode" which won't give you much performance boost. I tend to always specify the Numba function as njit or objectMode=Fa
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by peheje 9y ago
Ah ok. I was confused by the reponse to slaymaker1907 who recommended Streams directly, as it didn't seem to address the Stream API. I guess many of the challenges of concurrent computing still applies here. When else do we need parall
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by peheje 9y ago
Cool. For anyone looking at using Python when speed is important should also take a look at Numba.
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by peheje 9y ago
Java 8 released march 2014. Youtube video published december 2012. Book originally published 2006. What am I missing?
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by peheje 9y ago
“Wall clock comparison. Instead of looking at the raw number of states seen, one can argue that the most important metric to look at is the wall clock time: how long (in number of seconds) does it take to solve a given problem? This quantit