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by pjmlp 633 days ago
My only big critism is the CPython folks resistance to any kind of performance improvements, and the way PyPy efforts have been largely ignored, making Python the last major dynamic language to finally start caring about performance and having a JIT in the box.

Finally thanks to data science, and people getting fed up with always writing bindings, this is changing, and Python can join Common Lisp, Scheme, Smalltalk, SELF, JavaScript, Ruby, Lua, Dylan, Julia, BASIC club.
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neonsunset 633 days ago
To be fair, Ruby YJIT can still somehow be slower than Python 3.11+ at times. Lua JIT is a bit of a separate effort and the ones that truly try the hardest here are Julia (which is not necessarily interpreted, it's really difficult to call it a pure scripting language at this point) and JavaScript engine implementations. I can see pretty good numbers for SBCL on BenchmarksGame too.
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pjmlp 633 days ago
Yes, but it isn't the only one, the oldest Ruby JIT goes back to Ruby Motion, still being sold.

I would not put Julia and Common Lisp on the scripting basket yep.

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gpderetta 633 days ago
and elisp. Let's not forget that elisp got a JIT (well, actually a static compiler) before CPython did!
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pjmlp 633 days ago
Indeed, I only listed the languages I know more about, it has been a long time since XEmacs was my poor man's IDE on UNIX systems.
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