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Re:Node.js 14 is over 20x faster than Python3.8 for fib(n) by PartiallyTyped on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @02:16PM (#26081398)
To be fair, python itself isn't jitting anything, while node is.
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Re:Node.js 14 is over 20x faster than Python3.8 for fib(n) by meetups323 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:46PM (#26084104)
Numba doesn't really qualify as JIT if what it's really doing is compiling it and caching the results to disk then reading from them in the future for faster execution... that's just a compiler.
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