Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood

Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by bch on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @04:33PM (#8626492)

Because beautiful control structures and a REPL ?

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Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by slantedview on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @07:23PM (#8627364)

I'm not sure that these are compelling reasons to use Python, given the alternatives.

Squeezing performance out of Python often involves dropping down to C. This isn't the case with the competition.

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Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by pjmlp on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @05:55PM (#8626940)

There are many languages that offer that alongside an AOT compiler to native code.

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Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by bch on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @07:26PM (#8627377)

Well sure -- but I guess considering Python at all suggests you want or need to. Python control and the REPL are _fine_ reasons to use it. To be clear though, I'm a Tcl-er, but I use it in exactly this context. I meant my comment to stand along the other sibling comments.

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