Python's Speed Gains

Since python 3 3-8 it is now 30 times faster than java in terms of performance. The default python implementation historically was slow because that bytecode had to be run by an interpreter on the end user's machine and there's been for a long time another flavor of python called pypy that was a just-in-time compiler so that actually even then had the same performance as java. People have been looking for escape go for y python so stinking slug which is one of the main reasons why people have disliked it historically, he says.

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