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		vhdd 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming language speed comparison using Leibni... Python took 86 seconds, if I'm reading it correctly. I can see your point holding for a language like Java, but most of Python's time spent cannot have been startup time, but actual execution time.

drob518 4 days ago [–]

Yea, for Python it’s also just slow (not the language, but CPython; you can do much better with PyPy).

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