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Re:How the founders of Brex built a billion-dollar business ... by Eug894 on Saturday October 06, 2018 @02:37PM (#18156548)
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...

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Re:How the founders of Brex built a billion-dollar business ... by y4mi on Saturday October 06, 2018 @04:53PM (#18157210)
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.

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