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groundzeros2015last Sunday at 8:22 PM1 replyview on HN

I know this topic has been beat to death but this is another example of why high level language with super optimizing compiler has had less industry success.

If performance is a feature it needs to be written in the code. Otherwise it implicitly regresses when you reorder a symbol and you have no recourse to fix it, other than fiddling to see if it likes another pattern.


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alberthlast Sunday at 8:31 PM

To be fair, it’s misleading to group Scala (or any JVM language), with other “high-level languages.”

The JVM is extremely mature and performant, and JVM-based languages often run 5x (or more) than non-JVM high-level languages like Python or Ruby.

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