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		PaulHoule 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reflections on 2 years of CPython's JIT Compiler Javascript and Common Lisp aren't as fast as C but they are faster than Python.

eigenspace 7 months ago [–]

Javascript and common lisp don't have object models that are as anathema to optimization as python does. Well, CLOS is pretty bad, but at least the badness is typically isolated.

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