The Cost of Dynamism (was Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?)

[Mark Lawrence]

On 13/03/2016 01:20, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 04:02 am, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> So I am clearly not the only programmer in the world who couldn't care
>> less about speed.
>
>
> For somebody who couldn't care less, you sure do keep going on and on and on
> and on and on and on and on about it.
>
> Yeah, we get it. The CPython interpreter is plenty fast enough for whatever
> you use it for. Good for you! Millions aren't so lucky. They are looking
> for something faster, because for them, you can never have too much speed.
> When you are trying to solve a 7000x7000 system of equations, you don't
> want to wait three days for a solution. Or three hours with Numpy.
>
> And that's why projects like PyPy, Numba, Cython, Pyjion, Pyston, Theano,
> FAT Python, Unladen Swallow, Nuitka, Pyrex, Psyco, Parakeet, SWIG and more
> exist. For a language which is fast enough, it sure seems that a lot of
> people are working to ways to speed up Python applications.
>
> If Bart is such a horrible person for wanting Python to be faster, what does
> that make Brett Cannon (Pyjion), Victor Stinner (FAT Python), Stefan Behnel
> (Cython), Armin Rigo (Psycho and PyPy), to mention just a few?
>
> And if speed goes against the Python philosophy so badly, why doesn't GvR
> stop them, or at least discourage them more?
>

Python works and is extremely successful.  If it were made even faster 
it would be even more successful.  BartC would still be a complete 
idiot, as the complete crap that he's been spewing over the last days 
puts him into the same league as the RUE, possibly worse.  It is so 
obvious that he knows nothing about Python that I find it stunning that 
you can even contemplate supporting him, or is he paying you?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence