Comments by "Immudzen" (@Immudzen) on "Software’s Role In The Fight Against Climate Change" video.

I have a strange experience with respect to Python performance. Most of the time in production systems I run into Python is faster than Java or C++ even though those languages are easily faster in microbenchmarks. I suspect the issue is that Python makes it easy and standard to hand off the harder computations to standard libraries like Pandas. Numpy, Scipy, Torch, etc. and also that on real systems data structures are so extremely important and Python makes that easier than Java or C++. I know for sure that I can write C++ code that is much faster than Python code but I also know that I had formal training in doing that. Most people don't have that training and without that they often struggle to make something as fast.
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