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Bashing Python in Python development thread is not tactful.



it may not be tactful but it sure is factful (even if that last word is ungrammatical, at least the sentence is poetical). he he he.

jfc. guido knows ;), this thread is getting weirder and weirder, creepier and creepier.

are you literally implying that I should lie about known facts about python slowness?

"tactful" my foot.

then I guess the creators of PyPy and Unladen Swallow (the latter project was by Google) were/are not being tactful either, because those were two very prominent projects to speed up Python, in other words, to reduce its very well known slowness.

There is/was also Cython and Pyston (the latter at Dropbox, where Guido (GvR, Python creator) worked for a while. Those were or are also projects to speed up Python program execution.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyPy

https://peps.python.org/pep-3146/

Excerpt from the section titled "Rationale, Implementation" from the above link (italics mine):

[

Many companies and individuals would like Python to be faster, to enable its use in more projects. Google is one such company.

Unladen Swallow is a Google-sponsored branch of CPython, initiated to improve the performance of Google’s numerous Python libraries, tools and applications. To make the adoption of Unladen Swallow as easy as possible, the project initially aimed at four goals:

    A performance improvement of 5x over the baseline of CPython 2.6.4 for single-threaded code.
    100% source compatibility with valid CPython 2.6 applications.
    100% source compatibility with valid CPython 2.6 C extension modules.
    Design for eventual merger back into CPython.
]

Your honor, I rest my case.


tactful - showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people. Right or wrong, your comments do not contribute to the discussion. Open source development is about collaboration. Your irrelevant comments are disrespectful to all the hard working developers who have been working together to push the limits of what is possible with what may be the most widely used programming language of our time. I use Python for it's ergonomics and community, not for speed. Removing the GIL has been something we've been yearning for since the Python 2 days. And the speed has improved drastically in recent years with each release. You don't win a prize for being right.


>tactful - showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people. Right or wrong, your comments do not contribute to the discussion.

just take a look at the depth of your incredibly rotten stupidity and ugliness of mind, you fucktard and dotard (dotard means something like a senile person, in case you didn't know):

hn user jacob019, you little mofo:

you say that "Right or wrong, your comments do not contribute to the discussion."

that itself is a contradiction in terms.

so you are saying that my comments do not contribute to the discussion even if i am right?

(what an utter fool and liar and swine you are.)

then why should i and anyone else think that your comments contribute to the discussion when they so totally fucking wrong, biased, shitheaded, pissheaded, and other choice epithets?

comgrats, you have really jumped the shark in terms of being a creep.

enjoy your miserable life for what it is worth, you worm.


Seems I hit a nerve. We never stop growing. Good luck to you friend.


if Google wanted a performance increase of 5x over the then existing python, I guess we can safely say that Python was slow, amirite. and yes, I know the version number mentioned, and what it is today.




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