python simply not scaleable enough for google?

[Peter Chant]

Terry Reedy wrote:

> I can imagine a day when code compiled from Python is routinely
> time-competitive with hand-written C.

In my very limited experience it was very informative programming in C for 
PIC microcontrollers and inspecting the assembly code produced.  If I just 
threw together loops and complex if statements the assembly produced was 
very long and impossible to follow whereas if I though carefully about what 
I was doing, tried to parallel what I would have done in assembly I found 
the assembly produced looked a lot like I imagined it would if I were 
programming in assembler directly.  Except that the whole process was 10x 
faster and actually worked.

Pete

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