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Re:The computers are fast, but you don't know it by Nihilartikel on Thursday June 16, 2022 @06:55PM (#31772026)
Python _is_ slow, but even back in 2006 on a pentium 4 I had no problem using it with PyGame to build a smooth 60fps rtype style shooter for a coding challenge.

One just has to not do anything dumb in the render loop and it's plenty responsive.

Of course, if you're going to interactively process a 50mb csv or something... But even then pandas is faster.

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Re:The computers are fast, but you don't know it by Narishma on Friday June 17, 2022 @06:07AM (#31776127)
That's because a Pentium 4 is way overkill for such a simple game.
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