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Re:Faster CPython Ideas – Issue Tracker for Faster CPython Project
on Thursday May 13, 2021 @07:05AM (#27140760)
25-50% has been hoped for many times in the past 3 decades. I don't find that very impressive.
CPython got big because of its relatively decent C-API and glue capabilities. 25% does not make a difference, decent C extensions have speedups in the order of 10-100 times (yes, times, not percent).
If I had a dollar for every time someone proposed a Python speedup ...