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eeZi on Aug 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: PyPy gets funding from Mozilla for Python 3.5 supp...

NodeJS/V8 is faster than CPython for obvious reasons - V8 is JIT compiled while CPython is not. PyPy closes the gap.

john_reel on Aug 11, 2016 [–]

LuaJIT made the news for having an interpreter that beat V8’s JIT a while ago. There are a lot of traits about languages and their implementations that makes looking at their compiler features a poor way of determining speed.

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