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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by IshKebab on Thursday July 06, 2023 @05:46PM (#36623538)
The difference between C++ and Python is not nanoseconds.

And I have definitely seen projects fail due - in part - to language choice. Of course projects can succeed in almost any language but that doesn't mean the language choice is irrelevant.

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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by nimithryn on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:43PM (#36625463)
Example? I'm curious
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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by IshKebab on Friday July 07, 2023 @02:05AM (#36627827)
Python is generally around 50 times slower than C++. Obviously it varies massively with the benchmark but that's a good ballpark.

Just Google "python vs c++ speed" and you will find hundreds of examples (or "python vs rust speed" - Rust is essentially the same speed as C++).

Here's the first result - they got a 25x speedup:

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-fast-is-c-compared-to-pyt...

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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by redsky880 on Friday July 07, 2023 @06:36PM (#36639174)
Did you read the article and comments? The comments point out a lot of issues with the article. Sadly, I've seen this article referenced before on other discussions.
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