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Sep 2, 2024 at 23:26
It's so strange that we talk about languages being slow, and have done for years. Computer performance has increased so much in this time. https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/is-python-slow/ (shared on HN in 2009) discusses Python being slow. My underpowered Thinkpad has 20x the single-threaded perf!
Is Python Slow?
Is Python Slow?
Python is a programming language that I learnt somewhat recently (something like 2, 3 years ago) and that I like very much. It is simple, to the point, and has several functional-like constructs th…

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Sep 2, 2024 at 23:29
It's so strange that we talk about languages being slow, and have done for years. Computer performance has increased so much in this time. https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/is-python-slow/ (shared on HN in 2009) discusses Python being slow. My underpowered Thinkpad has 20x the single-threaded performance! https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/73vs3766/AMD-Athlon-64-4000+-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-PRO-4650U Maybe *relative* performance of languages matters more?
Is Python Slow?
Is Python Slow?
Python is a programming language that I learnt somewhat recently (something like 2, 3 years ago) and that I like very much. It is simple, to the point, and has several functional-like constructs th…
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Jun 5, 2019 at 23:21
Today I learnt you can estimate the age of a machine by looking at SMART data! $ smartctl -a /dev/sda 9 Power_On_Hours Old_age 9335 (92 144 0) 12 Power_Cycle_Count Old_age 3900 I bought my ThinkPad second hand and it's had an amazing number of boots.