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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by Phrodo_00 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @11:23PM (#37317300)
> (though this expression doesn't really make any sense, as slowness is a property of the implementation, not of the language)

Yes, which is why this is the way CPython works, but PyPy uses JIT and is faster.

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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by felipetrz on Sunday September 10, 2023 @03:07PM (#37458922)
> and is faster.

After a very long warmup time, which may make one-shot applications much slower.

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