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It must feel great to be a Python Core Developer. A 1% perf improvement in any part of the language translates to billions of CPU hours saved around the world.


Unfortunately even with Python 3.9 you might still need 10-100x as many servers as you would if you used C++. :(

disclaimer: I like Python and find it a lot more fun than C++, although C++/STL are getting better over time!


Perhaps interesting: Python 1.0 and STL were released/standardized in the same year - 1994.


Get the best of both worlds with pybind11 ;)


That wouldn't be the case if there was more JIT love.


As PHP discovered, JIT is not a magic button. If you don't have efficient data structures and memory use, JIT won't do much for code that isn't just raw number-crunching.


You might.. but more probably you need infinitely more servers.

(Because the C++ program is too hard to write and doesn't come into existence!)




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