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0 pointskarmakaze5y ago0 comments

How is it that Python is able to do so many things quickly (even excluding NumPy/SciPy)? Is it more native code libraries? Could Ruby follow this path as effectively?

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hobofan5y ago

In general these days, Python "general purpose" code is about as fast/slow as Ruby. And yes, everything that does heavy lifting has native extensions underneath.

pdimitar5y ago

Most of the production Python code is not actually Python; the language itself is often a proxy to C libraries with a pleasing syntax.

mwcampbell5y ago

Eric Raymond wrote about this, in relation to his reposurgeon project, here:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8161

Basically, what he found is that for programs that work with large graphs of objects (as opposed to arrays of numbers, which are the domain of numpy and friends), Python isn't all that fast. I don't know how it compares to Ruby though.

igouy5y ago

Is Python is able to do so many things quickly?

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

goatlover5y ago

Are the Python web frameworks that much faster?

karmakazeOP5y ago

I wasn't specifically thinking web frameworks but a number of projects that I found surprising and performant. One example I can recall is Graphite (Whisper, Carbon).

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