Faster CPython at PyCon, part two [LWN.net]

Faster CPython at PyCon, part two

Posted May 24, 2023 23:07 UTC (Wed) by 0xdky (guest, #141261)
In reply to: Faster CPython at PyCon, part two by anton
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Could it be to reduce the cost of running a lot of analytics and ML jobs written in Python for these large cloud providers? If they can save on compute, they either get a bigger profit or can reduce the price and get more customers.

With the AI/ML wave, there could be uptick in Python based jobs running on public clouds.

Overall, I am very happy to see this improvements and technical content on LWN. Keep it coming!

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Faster CPython at PyCon, part two

Posted May 27, 2023 12:21 UTC (Sat) by Rudd-O (guest, #61155) [Link]

Google internally uses Python. But not as much. And almost all highly-performant code is C++ or Go or Java these days.

It's a matter of software quality constraints, mostly; back then, when we did not have mypy, it was comparatively harder to be certain that a Python program was gonna do what the programmer intended it to do after TAP was done TAPping, RAPID was done RAPIDing, and your PAR file was ready for your MPM (lengthy processes prior to deploy).

Modern Python with types (and a disciplined programmer who understands the type system) is almost as good as Go. Rust is still quite superior. Obviously these are only my opinions.