Well, glad he's coming around. Years back he seemed to stand by the notion that Python wasn't slow, showing a toy example. I remember thinking it was just condescending, whether intentional or not.
Nodejs is much faster than Python even for workloads where there's overlap in use-cases, like webapis and scripting.
The only production language with performance in the ballpark of Python is Ruby.
I agree that more often than not it simply isn't an issue, but CPython performance isn't much far ahead of toy languages, for a whole lot of reasons that we are all sick and tired of hearing.
Comments
Well, glad he's coming around. Years back he seemed to stand by the notion that Python wasn't slow, showing a toy example. I remember thinking it was just condescending, whether intentional or not.
I think years ago things were much different, also even today that might still be true.
Among interpreted languages python is/was one of the faster ones.
NodeJS has similar speed, and in some cases is faster. I don't know any other interpreted language though.
People are also complaining about GIL, but ironically NodeJS is single threaded.
Nodejs is much faster than Python even for workloads where there's overlap in use-cases, like webapis and scripting.
The only production language with performance in the ballpark of Python is Ruby.
I agree that more often than not it simply isn't an issue, but CPython performance isn't much far ahead of toy languages, for a whole lot of reasons that we are all sick and tired of hearing.