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Re:Ask HN: Is C/C++ really faster than Python? by paramsingh on Sunday June 21, 2015 @10:54AM (#9753642)
This might be a silly question as I don't know much about compilers or interpreters, but how is that possible? Also, why hasn't the Python community tried to make PyPy the default then?
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Re:Ask HN: Is C/C++ really faster than Python? by empyrical on Sunday June 21, 2015 @11:07AM (#9753682)
> how is that possible

PyPy is written in a restricted subset of Python called RPython, which gets translated into C

https://rpython.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq.html

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Re:Ask HN: Is C/C++ really faster than Python? by njbooher on Sunday June 21, 2015 @11:01AM (#9753659)
Various packages are incompatible with PyPy.

http://pypy.org/compat.html

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Re:Ask HN: Is C/C++ really faster than Python? by tyho on Sunday June 21, 2015 @11:02AM (#9753664)
PyPy is written in a subset of python called RPython. It is translated into c then executed.
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