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conroy
on March 17, 2012
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Why we didn't use a bloom filter
In response to c, pypy has been getting ridiculously fast as of late. In some very specific (ie pointless) benchmarks, it can outperform C [1]. And it's only getting faster [2].
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http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-is-faster-than-c-a...
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http://speed.pypy.org/
shin_lao
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Every language has got at least one benchmark saying "We're faster than C".
ajays
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I was about to post that. Someone once joked, "a language isn't mature until it has a benchmark showing that it is faster than C".
TeMPOraL
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It's good to know that, thanks :). I'll look into PyPy if I ever start doing some serious work in Python.
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[1] http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-is-faster-than-c-a...
[2] http://speed.pypy.org/