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Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014) by curried_haskell on Thursday July 07, 2016 @06:13PM (#12052403)
The only reason people might think of Java as slow, is because of desktop applications like LibreOffice, IntelliJ, or Eclipse. Java on the server blows Python out of the water in terms of speed.
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Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014) by Narishma on Thursday July 07, 2016 @06:22PM (#12052447)
AFAIK LibreOffice is written in C++, not Java.
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Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014) by bpyne on Thursday July 07, 2016 @10:30PM (#12053284)
Actually, the latest version of Intellij's IDEA is pretty snappy on my 5 yo MBP.
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Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014) by nix0n on Thursday July 07, 2016 @06:20PM (#12052437)
What causes this? Is it just a problem with Java's GUI system?

(I agree with your observation, though.)

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