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Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood
When I teach courses on Python for scientific computing, I make this point very early in the course, and tell the students why: it boils down to Python being a dynamically typed, interpreted language, where values are stored not in dense buffers but in scattered objects. And then I talk about how to get around this by…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Nov 18, 2014 | Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by karlheinz_py | 220 | 148 |
| May 9, 2014 | Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by underyx | 208 | 176 |
| Oct 25, 2017 | Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014) by s16h | 170 | 178 |
| Jul 7, 2016 | Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014) by bshanks | 142 | 77 |
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Linked from 11 Hacker News comments by 11 different people, from May 2014 to Dec 2022.
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