Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by tgv 918 days ago
One: return 1.7112245243e98

Joking aside: these are not catch-all comparisons. Nor is the article. But Python is mucher slower and much safer than C. It's easier to start in Python than in C.

1 comments

;-P Just to be pedantic, if you're going to all the trouble to give (modulo lack of a repl) a wrong answer fast, might as well do it really quickly:

    return 0;
in the hopes that compiles down to something like:

    xor rax, rax
    ret