Re:The computers are fast, but you don't know it
by jerf on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:07PM
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Languages top out at around 50x, and that's the extreme of pure CPython to C.
For as many factors of magnitude as I am talking about, you have to be screwing up algorithms, networks, and a whole bunch of other things too.
Python and similar languages like Ruby really do make it easy to accidentally pile things on top of each other, but you can screw up in pure assembler with enough work put into it. Assembler doesn't stop you from being accidentally quadratic or using networks in a silly way.
For as many factors of magnitude as I am talking about, you have to be screwing up algorithms, networks, and a whole bunch of other things too.
Python and similar languages like Ruby really do make it easy to accidentally pile things on top of each other, but you can screw up in pure assembler with enough work put into it. Assembler doesn't stop you from being accidentally quadratic or using networks in a silly way.