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Re:Nim 1.4 by jibal on Sunday October 18, 2020 @08:05AM (#24817222)
Python is written in C, and yet ...

Compiling to C really isn't relevant. "50 years of work on C compilers" is not at all relevant--languages that compile to LLVM get all the advantages of the optimization work.

Re:Nim 1.4 by otherme123 on Monday October 19, 2020 @01:49PM (#24828842)
Written in C is not the same that compiled via C. If you want Python compiled via C you can use Cython, and without much surprise, you usually get a huge speed up (e.g. https://notes-on-cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/std_dev.htm...).