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andrewchambers
on Nov 27, 2014
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C (2013)
No, C is fast, even tcc which does essentially no optimization except for constant folding is about half as fast as gcc -O1 I think. Basically no special work is needed to be 50 times as fast as python.
ris
on Nov 28, 2014
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"No special work" except the massively more laborious effort of writing the whole thing in C.
andrewchambers
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I was referring to no special work on the part of the compiler writer, not the application writer.
jerven
on Nov 28, 2014
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Which python?
andrewchambers
on Nov 29, 2014
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CPython 2.6 last I tried benchmarking tcc and python. Obviously pypy or pyston might have an edge for certain snippets after a long jit warmup.
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