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by jaimex2 1365 days ago
faster at what?!

That's a pretty generic statement and likely true only in a very specific frame.

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25% number is from pyperformance benchmark suite, which you can replicate. Whether pyperformance is representative benchmark suite is another question.

https://github.com/python/pyperformance

Cheers.

It rubs people the wrong way but I always call out blanket statements. Generally languages get faster with each version and theres a lot of numbers thrown around, it doesn't mean your apps will get anywhere near that boost.

If you're lucky that one loop that concats strings got a few ms shaven off while that ORM youre using continues to grind the whole thing down.