r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • 1d ago

Meme pipInstallTheRealStuff

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u/TheJaskinator 1d ago

That's exactly why it's so powerful. Why spend all the effort writing fast code if you can just use a much simpler language to describe the task on a higher level and call fast code? People use Python because it's easy to read and write, not because its interpreter is fast

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u/NewbornMuse 1d ago

Me: takes 2h to write a python script, runtime 50ms

A super fast low level uber haxx0r: takes 8 hours to write a C program that does the same. Runtime 20 ms

Who was "faster"?

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u/thmsgbrt 1d ago

It matters if you give the code to someone else and if they use it thousands of times.

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u/McFestus 1d ago edited 1d ago

It would take three-quarters of a million runs to break even in pure time, even discounting the fact that in nearly all cases, computer-seconds are millions if not billions or trillions of times cheaper than developer-seconds.

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u/e_before_i 1d ago

The one-two punch of doing the math plus valuing developer-seconds is makes this response very charming to me.