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Re:How the CPython compiler works by devxpy on Thursday September 24, 2020 @09:40AM (#24578504)
You should look at numba. In some special cases, you can actually write for loops in pure python that are faster than C loops.
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Re:How the CPython compiler works by JesseMeyer on Thursday September 24, 2020 @09:51AM (#24578581)
Are you referring to Numba's ability to offload certain loops into a GPU kernel?

Otherwise, Clang has access to the same optimizations that Numba has as they both share LLVM as their optimizing compiler. Beyond that, I think a fairer comparison is C w/ OpenMP vs Numba for parallel processing if syntactic brevity is the metric.

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