Alex Gaynor • 3/15/2010

Languages Don't Have Speeds, Or Do They?

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The article challenges the conventional wisdom that only implementations have speed, not languages. It analyzes Python and C code examples to argue that a language's design (like dynamic typing) can impose fundamental performance limits that even a perfect JIT compiler cannot overcome, compared to a statically-typed language like C.

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