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0 pointsxiaodai7y ago0 comments

Reminds me of this post https://hackernoon.com/why-is-python-so-slow-e5074b6fe55b I can't say I understood everything but I also recall that Python is hard to optimise because it has such a rich object model

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pjmlp7y ago

The same rich object model that Common Lisp, Dylan, SELF, JavaScript, Smalltalk enjoy while having JIT support.

For example in Smalltalk, you can destroy all JIT assumptions about a given object by sending a become: message.

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