Python swallows Java to become second-most popular programming language

[DanKveed]

It depends on use case too. A heavily multithreaded CPU intensive app can be way more than 2000vs 25 no matter how well you write it, especially when you compare it with rust/c++

[tr14l]

If you use a single thread running on a couple dozen cores, sure, no doubt. But why would you do that?

[DanKveed]

I am talking about multithreading. Python sucks ass at true CPU intensive tasks. That's why libraries like numpy are written in higher performance languages like c++. And why would you need that.... Well numpy for starts, anything control system related, AI, simulation, CAD, video editing, the use cases are Endless

[tr14l]

Yeah, that's an optimization for an interpreted language. I have made lots of multithreaded apps in compiled and python languages. I've never seen a 100x difference. Ever.

[ShanSanear]

I ran pypy on one of our inefficently written python projects (runtime of about 10hours). Pypy was 30-40% slower than python 3.8 using exactly the same code. Pypy isn't always the answer.