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Re:Modern Python Performance Considerations by robotsteve2 on Thursday May 05, 2022 @12:17PM (#31275262)
The world doesn't revolve around web development. It's not the only use case. Scientific Python is huge and benefits tremendously from the language being faster. If Python can be 1% faster, that's a significant force multiplier for scientific research and engineering analysis/design (in both academia and industry).
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Re:Modern Python Performance Considerations by mrtranscendence on Thursday May 05, 2022 @01:09PM (#31275968)
Because most of the really huge scientific Python libraries are written as wrappers over lower-level language code, I'd be curious to what extent speeding up Python by, say, 10% would speed up "normal" scientific Python code on average. 1%? 5%?
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Re:Modern Python Performance Considerations by animatedb on Thursday May 05, 2022 @02:00PM (#31276593)
If you are talking about large sets of numbers, then the speed up will be far below 1%.
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