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Re:Python app development for beginners – Kivy mobile app tu... by BiteCode_dev on Sunday April 25, 2021 @05:43PM (#26936974)
Python the language != Python the runtime.
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Re:Python app development for beginners – Kivy mobile app tu... by nine_k on Sunday April 25, 2021 @06:38PM (#26937387)
Jython exists, and is in the same performance ballpark as CPython.

Python does so much highly dynamic stuff that even writing a good JIT compiler for it is hard, OTOH these exist. On top of all, it has GIL. I suppose the plain bytecode interpreters are as fast as possible.

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Re:Python app development for beginners – Kivy mobile app tu... by VWWHFSfQ on Sunday April 25, 2021 @05:48PM (#26937024)
practically it is
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