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0 pointsFomite10y ago0 comments

My usual take on this: "Between R and Python, the faster language is likely whichever library author actually wrote most of their code in C or FORTRAN."

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mikeskim10y ago

Pypy is actually much faster than both standard Python 2.7 and R in basically everything requiring the standard library.

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0 pointsFomite10y ago0 comments

My usual take on this: "Between R and Python, the faster language is likely whichever library author actually wrote most of their code in C or FORTRAN."

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mikeskim10y ago

Pypy is actually much faster than both standard Python 2.7 and R in basically everything requiring the standard library.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse