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		nicoburns on Oct 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rewriting a high performance vector database in Ru... I believe the main reason Python is slow is because the cpython project has rejected performance enhancements in favour of keeping the code simple. JavaScript has similar semantics to Python, and its performance is not far behind Java/C# at all.

orf on Oct 19, 2022 [–]

JS has vastly different semantics to Python, one that lends itself much more to the kind of JIT optimisations needed to make it more performant.

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