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Re:Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython by sergiomattei on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @08:43AM (#27049161)
To clear some confusion: both of you misunderstood my point.

I don't think Python's language readability is the problem.

The problem is CPython's core team shooting down any performance improvement for the sake of keeping the compiler source code readable.

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Re:Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython by hitekker on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @09:25AM (#27049520)
The last two discussions I recall on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24922522

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11125769

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Re:Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython by throwaway894345 on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @06:15PM (#27056507)
Mine is the top comment on that first link with 34 upvotes. :)
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Re:Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython by throwaway894345 on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:07AM (#27049980)
I did indeed misunderstand. Thanks for the clarification! :)
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