Re:How the founders of Brex built a billion-dollar business ...
by Eug894 on Saturday October 06, 2018 @02:37PM
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Why not have single language for all kinds of work? And why not spend some tiny part of those money dedicated to improving hardware by 2x-3x, when there are people [0] claiming Python run-time has potential to 1000x speed-up? I know, I know, it will make manual optimization job nonsense, and everyone needs a job nowadays it seems...
[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/har...
Re:How the founders of Brex built a billion-dollar business ...
by y4mi on Saturday October 06, 2018 @04:53PM
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Did you actually read that link?
Yes, you can have a substantial performance boost for python by rewriting it fully in c... But that's exactly like saying that c performance is substantially better than Python's.
Dropbox abandoned their incompatible python 2 jit compiler. Pypy remains available and there was really no point in having another around.
And Guido had nothing to do with that decision afaict.
Finally, the reason why they dropped it is absolutely correct. Python isn't meant to be used for performance critical work. Python is however fast enough for most usecases - especially with pypy, but definitely not all.