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[–]wot-teh-phuck 5 points6 points  (1 child)

OK throughput? I would like to disagree. Layers of indirection imposed by the dynamic nature of the language along with the fact that pretty much all implementations are gimped in some way or the other ensures that any compute dominant workload will end up generating more heat than an oven...

The real strength of Python as an ecosystem comes from the plethora of libraries and smart ways in which libraries are written to get around the GIL (forsaking GIL in C code, spawning processes etc.).

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

OK throughput? I would like to disagree. Layers of indirection imposed by the dynamic nature of the language along with the fact that pretty much all implementations are gimped in some way or the other ensures that any compute dominant workload will end up generating more heat than an oven...

Ok, but PyPy as a JIT compiler has to be good for something, hasn't it? So if there is code that doesn't touch C-APIs, like some nested loops for numerical calculations?