On 28 January 2018 at 07:18, Pau Freixes <pfreixes@gmail.com> wrote:
Regarding the cost of calling a function, that I can guess is not related with the previous stuff, what is an impediment right now to make it faster ?
At a technical level, the biggest problems relate to the way we manipulate frame objects at runtime, including the fact that we expose those frames programmatically for the benefit of debuggers and other tools. More broadly, the current lack of perceived commercial incentives for large corporations to invest millions in offering a faster default Python runtime, the way they have for the other languages you mentioned in your initial post :) Cheers, Nick. P.S. Fortunately for Python users in general, those incentives are in the process of changing, as we see the rise of platforms like AWS Lambda (where vendors and platforms charging by the RAM-second gives a clear financial incentive to investing in software performance improvements). -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia