top | item 35007157 (no title) dodgerdan | 3 years ago Are people going optimistic about the efforts to make Python faster? discuss order hn newest dagw|3 years ago Optimistic that we'll see maybe a 2x performance over the next 5 years, yea. Optimistic that python will catch up to any of the 'fast' scripting languages, no. boxed|3 years ago If by "optimistic" you mean "confident we'll get some free wins that are ultimately pretty small for normal apps" then yes :P
dagw|3 years ago Optimistic that we'll see maybe a 2x performance over the next 5 years, yea. Optimistic that python will catch up to any of the 'fast' scripting languages, no.
boxed|3 years ago If by "optimistic" you mean "confident we'll get some free wins that are ultimately pretty small for normal apps" then yes :P
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