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Re:Migrated WordGap from Python to Go 1 by drivebyacct2 on Saturday March 23, 2013 @05:10PM (#5429782)
You find it unlikely a compiled language is faster than an interpreted one...?
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Re:Migrated WordGap from Python to Go 1 by gngeal on Saturday March 23, 2013 @06:42PM (#5430095)
Sometimes, with smart data structures for specialized cases (persistency, better asymptotic behaviour etc.), it can happen that memory accesses dominate the actual execution. If that happens, and you can't saturate CPU's execution units, the difference between an efficient interpreter and a compiler gets smeared very quickly.
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Re:Migrated WordGap from Python to Go 1 by Evbn on Sunday March 24, 2013 @02:21AM (#5431330)
Python is compiled. That is the c in .pyc
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Re:Migrated WordGap from Python to Go 1 by drivebyacct2 on Sunday March 24, 2013 @02:28AM (#5431339)
Sorta, not really the point though. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2998215/if-python-is-inte...
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