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Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of prematu... by xscott on Monday November 15, 2021 @08:28AM (#29227078)
I wonder how your C++ would've gone if you had a C++ library of Python-like data types. Something like a 'variant' type that could hold arbitrary integers, strings, and dicts or lists of those (or anything else you commonly used).

You would initially trade some of the C++ performance, but the code shouldn't be more complicated or difficult to write or compile than Python. Then, you'd only need to change the performance sensitive parts to use real C++ arrays or structs.

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Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of prematu... by typon on Monday November 15, 2021 @09:44AM (#29227948)
This is something I do except the slow parts are in Python and the fast parts are in C++ with pybdind11 connecting the two worlds
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Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of prematu... by Kye on Monday November 15, 2021 @09:20AM (#29227681)
I thought the C++ tendency was to optimize performance sensitive parts with C or assembly.
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Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of prematu... by taylodl on Monday November 15, 2021 @10:44AM (#29228693)
C++ is C. We used to optimize with assembly but nowadays with a processor's superpipelined architecture and the compiler's global register optimizations and so forth your inlined assembly is more likely to throw a monkey wrench into the whole works and make everything run slower. It's a better use of your time to look for a better algorithm.
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Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of prematu... by khoobid_shoma on Monday November 15, 2021 @05:57PM (#29234057)
Not really. C++ is not C, nor faster than C. e.g. TCO in C++ is awful due to ctor/dtor (could be mitigated by some compiler hints if available).
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Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of prematu... by xapata on Monday November 15, 2021 @11:19AM (#29229121)
Isn't that what Python is? Except C and not C++.
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Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of prematu... by xscott on Monday November 15, 2021 @01:13PM (#29230524)
No, because you wouldn't have to pay the virtual machine overhead (among others). Another possibility would be using Cython - write the prototype in pure Python, then Cythonize the parts which need to run more quickly.
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Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of prematu... by xapata on Monday November 15, 2021 @08:58PM (#29235747)
There are some new competitors for Cython. The article mentions Numba, which I've been pleased with, and mypyc, which I haven't tried yet.
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