Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood

Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by nkozyra on Friday May 09, 2014 @01:57PM (#7722300)

I always wondered why more languages didn't do this with the goal - ostensibly - being faster overall performance.

At the same time I hate it when syntax vacillates wildly from application to application.

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Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by sgt101 on Friday May 09, 2014 @04:46PM (#7723167)

Ok, I wanted to write "julia, julia, julia..." (check out the varargs) but I shall be sensible. Julia's syntax is what an algol culture programmer would expect in order to deal with a late 2000's concept of typing. It has the HCI virtue of being what I (you?) expect.

At the same time it is 40x faster (in my applications developed in a fortune 500 company, ok the research bit - but still delivered for use if not prod) than python.

Now, if only we got it running in SPARK...

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