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A comment on BIPLAN looks to be 1370 times faster than Python. Parent comment
Not sure what is the effective definition of "toy language".
>...focusing on a particular benchmark can most likely easily beat any other high-level language.
I was just curious to understand the performance difference so I have tried fib(40) on both BIPLAN and python side.
How can python be THAT slow? It is a huge waste of energy and people's time.
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Not sure what is the effective definition of "toy language".
>...focusing on a particular benchmark can most likely easily beat any other high-level language.
I was just curious to understand the performance difference so I have tried fib(40) on both BIPLAN and python side.
How can python be THAT slow? It is a huge waste of energy and people's time.