Re:Making Python Programs Blazingly Fast
by taneq on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @05:26AM
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> However fast you make it, the same effort would have made it that much faster again in a performant language.
If you're trying to make something go 'really fast' these days, that means either (a) some kind of vectorization, or (b) pushing work onto a GPU. In either case Python is unlikely to perform meaningfully worse than any other language, since the host language isn't doing much anyway.
If you're trying to make something go 'really fast' these days, that means either (a) some kind of vectorization, or (b) pushing work onto a GPU. In either case Python is unlikely to perform meaningfully worse than any other language, since the host language isn't doing much anyway.