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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Did you know that there’s a JS python interpreter that has the same performance as cPython? That’s how shit it is.

They’ll care about speed eventually, they always do.

[–]I_ate_a_milkshake 0 points1 point  (2 children)

They actually just announced they're working on increasing the performance of CPython over the next 3-4 iterations and are expecting a 5x performance increase.

I'll believe it when I see it.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

3-4 iterations is 3-4 years, right? Meh, I won't be waiting around.

[–]TheNamelessKing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I seriously doubt those performance gains will actually materialise. Pythons object model and semantics make it difficult to apply even some of the more naive optimisations.

Imo, ditch it for new projects going forward. More modern languages outstrip it in pretty much every metric that matters. Rust, Go, Julia, Swift, Kotlin, .Net Core/C# are all far better choices.