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by glutamate 1105 days ago
Much faster than Python or almost any non-native-compiled language (except Java)
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threeseed 1105 days ago
Python is a notoriously slow language so that's not saying much.

And there are a number of languages on the JVM e.g. Java, Scala, Kotlin, Clojure as well as countless compiled ones which are near-native.

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glutamate 1105 days ago
JVM languages do look interesting and with Graal there seems to be an evolutionary upgrade path from JavaScript code.
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arp242 1104 days ago
"Faster than Python" is a very different thing than "near native performance".
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