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bigcheesegs on April 9, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Project from Hell (2008)

There's more to it than that. C++ is designed for implementations to produce fast code. "Leave no room between C++ and Assembly" has been a guiding principle of C++. This is not true of Python, and thus the engineering effort required for an implementation to reach the same level of performance is huge, if at all possible.

sokoloff on April 9, 2018 | [–]

I view C and C++ as "portable assembly language".

(I happily and productively used C++ for many years; there's no hatred in the above sentiment.)

jashmatthews on April 10, 2018 | [–]

LuaJIT can do it and ZipPy + Graal + JVM should be able to get close enough to make a massive difference to Python performance in the near future.

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