alt Hacker NewsThe main benefit of python to me is that while slow, it's predictable. I do think they're going to get a lot more resistance to adding JITs, moving GCs, etc. it will become java with a million knobs to tune. If people want a JIT'd python just use pypy, right?
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stackskipton • today at 3:48 PM
As Python using SRE and supporting Python Flask apps, most of us would love JIT in Python assuming it pretty much drop in replacement.
PyPy doesn't have the support it needs and is stuck on 3.11.
davidkwast • today at 4:56 PM
It is the same for me. Predicability is better than any optimization.
sigmoid10 • today at 3:47 PM
And if people want python with java, there's always Jython.
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graemep • today at 4:18 PM
Resistance from anyone who matters to the developers?
Java lost almost all those knobs a while ago (I mean they're there, but you're better off relying on the defaults). The modern GCs have one or at most two knobs remaining, and even that will become unnecessary next year. As to predictablity, you get maximal pause time of well under 1ms for heaps up to 16TB.