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by IshKebab
5 days ago
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Right... but it's still only 15% faster than a simpler alternative. In a language that is 50x slower than the alternatives. Clearly not worth it. Of course the counterargument is that they'll improve it and maybe in future it will be 100% faster... But that seems pretty dubious given the progress so far. |
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It is nice to have the speed, always. But in Python, it would be a mistake to do it at the expense of flexibility. Same for typing: it is great to have it. I use it. But Python should be dynamic and the rest and extension that does not compromise everything else.
If a JIT can make Python 2 or 3x faster, or even 10x for some workloads, that is nice. But the language itself should support same idioms, reflection, dynamic typing, etc at the same level.