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0 pointsadgjlsfhk13y ago0 comments

There's a reason Godbolt was made for C/C++ rather than python/R. In a fast language you need to know what the compiler is doing to know what's slow. In a slow language, the slow part is pretty much always just "code that does anything in the language".

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pjmlp3y ago

Python is only slow because so far there has been a huge disregard for JIT implementations, versus how other dynamic languages have decided to deal with perfomance issues.

adgjlsfhk1OP3y ago

PyPy definitely shows that python could be 5x faster than it is, however this would still be ~10x slower than Julia/C/C++ (and R is roughly 5-10x slower than python now)

pjmlp3y ago

Yes, but it will never part of the development workflow of most Python developers, and the ongoing CPython JIT work sponsored by Microsoft will hardly win any JIT performance prices, given its design goals.

In any case, there is a reason why Python has a profiler in the box, as what one thinks and what actually is, isn't the same. Which was my starting point.

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pjmlp3y ago

Python is only slow because so far there has been a huge disregard for JIT implementations, versus how other dynamic languages have decided to deal with perfomance issues.

adgjlsfhk1OP3y ago

PyPy definitely shows that python could be 5x faster than it is, however this would still be ~10x slower than Julia/C/C++ (and R is roughly 5-10x slower than python now)

pjmlp3y ago

In any case, there is a reason why Python has a profiler in the box, as what one thinks and what actually is, isn't the same. Which was my starting point.

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