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Kapura on Aug 22, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learning from Ada

That's like saying "you can compile C to x86 ASM, so C is as fast as assembly"

Abstraction has costs. They can be reduced, but they don't evaporate.

icebraining on Aug 22, 2016 [–]

My point is that "fast as C" is meaningless. You can write quite abstract/unoptimized C. And you can write Python code with a few Cython-specific annotations that rival "regular" C code.

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