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Re:Rubyist makes some Python code 5x Faster by est on Saturday October 07, 2017 @11:01AM (#15424011)
I thought it was an insane CPython interpreter optimization or something.

Turns out it was a specific chunk of python snippet that

> determining all possible moves for a Queen piece on a chess-like board

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Re:Rubyist makes some Python code 5x Faster by devnonymous on Saturday October 07, 2017 @11:15AM (#15424073)
Yep, that's what I thought as well and was curious to see the link between the author being a rubyist and contributing to python. Too bad it wasn't any such thing.

On the plus side tho', I thought the principles mentioned go beyond the specifics of the code snippent which was being used more like an example.

The author being a rubyist has no influence to anything mentioned in the article AFAICT.

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