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0 pointsDerbasti1y ago0 comments

A thought experiment:

A piece of code takes 6h to develop in C++, and 1h to run.

The same algorithm takes 3h to code in Python, but 6h to run.

If I could thread-spam that Python code on my 24 core machine, going Python would make sense. I've certainly been in such situations a few times.

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C++ and python are not the only options though.

Julia is one that is gaining a lot of use in academia, but any number of modern, garbage collected compiled high level languages could probably do.

Fair. Add a couple hours to learn enough Julia to write the code.

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