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The world doesn't revolve around web development. It's not the only use case. Scientific Python is huge and benefits tremendously from the language being faster
by robotsteve2 4y ago
The world doesn't revolve around web development. It's not the only use case. Scientific Python is huge and benefits tremendously from the language being faster. If Python can be 1% faster, that's a significant force multiplier for scientific research and engineering analysis/design (in both academia and industry).
- mrtranscendence 4y agoBecause most of the really huge scientific Python libraries are written as wrappers over lower-level language code, I'd be curious to what extent speeding up Python by, say, 10% would speed up "normal" scientific Python code on average. 1%? 5%?
- animatedb 4y agoIf you are talking about large sets of numbers, then the speed up will be far below 1%.