[Chicago] Anyone heard of this?

[Japhy Bartlett]

There's better info on it at in their github (
https://github.com/rjpower/falcon), and it looks like it's still under
heavy development, but it's interesting!  Someone try it out and give us
some independent benchmarks.

- Japhy


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 3:42 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Brian Herman <brianherman at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Python is a popular dynamic language with a large part of its appeal
>> coming from powerful libraries and extension modules. These augment the
>> language and make it a productive environment for a wide variety of tasks,
>> ranging from web development (Django) to numerical analysis (NumPy).
>> Unfortunately, Python's performance is quite poor when compared to modern
>> implementations of languages such as Lua and JavaScript. [ CITATION NEEDED
>> <--- as they say in Wikipedia ]
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> I'd say a footnote to a bunch of benchmark studies right here would do
> this advertisement a world of good.
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> Python is in a performance niche that's true, and can't be seen as a race
> horse in all races.
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> Actually closer to the truth is Python-the-jockey rides atop several
> horses (VMs) rather successfully, with more horses to come most probably.
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> But why are we talking about Lua in particular and not Erlang?   Weird.
>
> Kirby
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