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Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by falcolas on Friday May 09, 2014 @12:37PM (#7721774)
Based off my own experience, dynamic typing has much less to do with slowness than the plethora of string copying which occurs in your typical python script.
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Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by blt on Friday May 09, 2014 @12:51PM (#7721853)
but for scientific computing with numbers - the author's target audience - dynamic typing is the main bottleneck.
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Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by freyrs3 on Friday May 09, 2014 @01:01PM (#7721913)
Boxing and memory locality are the the main bottlenecks in scientific computations with Python, dynamic typing is orthogonal.
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Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by andreasvc on Friday May 09, 2014 @02:05PM (#7722358)
If a language is dynamically typed, it is very likely that it will use boxing, so they do not seem orthogonal to me.
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Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by dragonwriter on Friday May 09, 2014 @05:27PM (#7723344)
There's ways to avoid that, where it matters, though its a pretty common thing in naive Python/Ruby, true.
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