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Re:Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular langu... by excessive on Sunday November 10, 2019 @06:09AM (#21497511)
> quite slow due to GIL

I don't want to defend the GIL, but that's not the reason CPython is slow. PyPy can be 100s of times faster, and it has a GIL too.

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Re:Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular langu... by tannhaeuser on Sunday November 10, 2019 @07:23AM (#21497711)
You're probably right, I'm not a Python insider.
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