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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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