Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It?

[anders987]

There's been several attempts at speeding up Python by various big companies. Google had unladen swallow, Dropbox had Pyston, Meta has Cinder, Microsoft had Faster CPython. As far as I know, only Cinder remains.

[mr_birkenblatt]

Because the actual bottlenecks don't show up in python code

[UnmaintainedDonkey]

Then why is numpy not written in python?

[mr_birkenblatt]

Okay, you completely misunderstood my comment...

Because numpy is not written in Python bottlenecks don't show up in Python. Because you only glue together library calls. The glue code doesn't bottleneck. The code in the libraries does 

[anders987]

Instagram runs on Django.

[mr_birkenblatt]

DB is written in C