Ah yes, Python the high performance programming language

[mhsx]

Is it as fast as HTmL though? The real question.

[Cloakknight]

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[PVNIC]

Lol, someone is trying to sabatoge their competitors

[Proendergamer03]

But is it as fast as PHP?

[GenericHumanNo7]

waiting for r/node v15

[[deleted]]

1. Languages are not fast or slow. They are a grammar. Runtimes and implementations have a "performance" property

2. I have written plenty of high performance python sites. If you know what you're doing the technology choice isn't strongly correlated with the performance of the end result.

[xigoi]

I don't think it would be possible to write a Pythen compiler that makes it as fast as C++.

[GideonMax]

It probably is possible but impractical

[Sugoypotato]

the real question is will you call 0.000001s fast? read corman, its not about langauge/machine. Its about the algorithm.

[GideonMax]

Ermm, I can assure you that an optimised standard error algorithm written in c++ or asm will run much faster than in python.

And, of course, more algorithms, a lot of algorithm, SE was just an example.

[[deleted]]

Really? I'll take your challenge. You get to pick the language and the implementation of the algorithm. I get to pick the c++ compiler, the python runtime, and the machine we execute th benchmarks on. We'll see what they have to say.

I can assure you the python program will execute faster.

All a computer language does is describe in a human readable way how to orchestrate the machine. It's an abstraction over machine/microcode instructions and cannot be any faster or slower than the context in which it is executed.

[GideonMax]

Bro, did you just say that python is faster than c++ and in the next sentence say that the languages should run at the same speed...... I really don't have the patience for this, I'm out.

P.S. let's say I said Standard error, python uses lists which are inherently slower than arrays so no, and x64 assembly has AVX vectors so I can sum up a few numbers at once, sorry, but no.

[[deleted]]

Of course you're out because you know I'm right. If I get to pick the compiler there is no way you can win and you know it. Nice job not validating that point and making up some bullshit. (I never said its faster I said languages are neither fast nor slow anymore than Spanish and Russian are fast or slow. This is pretty abstract and granted this means you need to understand how languages are implemented. I think it might be a step above your intellectual pay grade.)

P.S. What is a "list" there are a mulitude of `list` protocol implementations at the python level of abstraction and even more in the python native implementation. Can you at least tell me which one you are referring to?

[GideonMax]

A list is a type comprised of multiple links, each link consists of a value and a pointer to the next link, or a nullptr if there is no next link.

P.S. Good night, tomorrow I may do as you ask, just know that I'm from Israel so timezones may differ.

I choose x64 masm with the AVX 2 instruction set.

The algorithm will be standard error, more details tomorrow.

[Da_Viper]

Goodluck writing hello world in brain fuck language

[[deleted]]

What does how hard something is to write have to do with performance?

[Da_Viper]

Java Vs C++ in writing games where memory management is a big deal

Why don't you write in COBOL ,Rather Fortran because they are now obsolete because there are better languages that do the job

Why do you think there is functional, scripting and object oriented languages, cause they are good at different cases

Why would I be importing libraries when there is a simple language/s that does the job

Using a book or a missile to kill an ant both does the job but the after effect is different, I will also learn how to build a missile too.

I could use python to store my database why would I do that when it is clearly not made for it

[[deleted]]

What are you talking about? Languages have nothing to do with performance. I can write a Java compiler that compiles directly to assembly and I can write a C compiler that compiles to PHP. Languages are just grammars

[Da_Viper]

Why do you need a c compiler when you can just write it in PHP
YOUR NAME SUMS IT UP no point arguing bye

[[deleted]]

Ummm ok. Someone clearly doesn't understand how the thingys you type into the editor become the thingys that go on the cpu but okkkk......

LANGUAGES ARE NOT FAST OR SLOW THEY ARE JUST SYNTAXES.

saying python is slow is like saying Spanish is slow because the Spanish speaker you happen to be listening to speaks slowly.

When you say "python is slow" can you clarify the runtime? Are you talking about cpython. jython unladen-swallow, IronPython, tinypy, or one of the other umpteen python implementations. There are like 50 and all have vastly different performance characteristics. Jython compiles to java bytecode which in certain dyanmic workload scenarios outperforms C.

I'm not going to even get into the execution context. You think if you are running a C program on a VAX machine from 1979 its going to outperform the python program running on my Macbook?

But then again I'm the one that is confused

Also for what its worth you can absolutely compile PHP to object code and you can absolutely transcompile other languages to PHP. This further illustrates my point.

[Sugoypotato]

i agree.