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Python 3.11.0 final is now available (discuss.python.org)

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[–] poVoq 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The massive speed improvements are super exciting. Could be a php 7.x like moment for Python.

[–] holdengreen@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But isn't it just 10-60% max? That isn't massive when you consider Python is already extremely slow....

[–] poVoq 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Its not that bad right now, and 10-60% speed improvements makes it at least on par with other interpreted languages again. You can't compare it to compiled languages of course, but it is not always a good idea to use those.

[–] holdengreen@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Not if you compare it to languages like Lua, Javascript, LISP. Those languages can get really close to native for general code.

Not suggesting Python needs to become more like those languages, which generally don't have the same nice features Python does.

But I'm saying it should maybe be a goal to get much closer to them without having to write a C module.