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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by ajoseps on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:38PM (#21228246)
I'm guessing because Python's concurrency relies on the Global Interpreter Lock. Although I think concurrent.futures might address that. Haven't worked with python concurrency libraries in a bit.
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by weff_ on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:54PM (#21228835)
as I posted above:

I agree the GIL is a problem but it's only an issue for CPU-bound problems. Is there really an important amount of CPU-bound work that is written in a scripting language? If it's CPU-bound, wouldn't you want to use something lower level?

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by zaphirplane on Friday October 11, 2019 @10:30PM (#21230232)
There is machine learning, which usually calls into numpy or other c extensions With a lot of the data preparation done in python
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