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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by ska on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @04:13PM (#16433019) 

   used to yield orders of magnitude more performance, but optimizers have evolved and today there's not much difference.
If this were true, you'd expect see a lot more native python and the like.
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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by deepnotderp on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @08:34PM (#16434503)
Python is interpreted so super optimizing compilers, SIMD auto vectorization and other recent goodies necessary to get that performance won't work.
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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by ska on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @04:57PM (#16540311)
Python is not always interpreted. And when it isn't, it's still slow.
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