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Re:PyPy.js: Now faster than CPython by TillE on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @11:53AM (#7705206)
Lots of people use Python for tasks that are not CPU-bound. Scalable web-whatever and scientific computing aren't the whole world.
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Re:PyPy.js: Now faster than CPython by apendleton on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @12:01PM (#7705265)
Even scalable web-whatever is often IO-bound... of my several apps in production, there's only one where CPU is a serious concern, and I run that one on PyPy. cPython is fine for the others.
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Re:PyPy.js: Now faster than CPython by stcredzero on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @01:44PM (#7705977)
I'll go so far as to say that we haven't done enough with making things fast on multicore processors except with IO-bound tasks. The current architecture of multicore processors stinks for achieving anything but the "embarrassingly parallel."
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