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		Etheryte 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux Being slower than other mainstream languages isn't really a problem in and of itself if it's fast enough to get the job done. Looking at all the ML and LLM work that's done in Python, I would say it is fast enough to get things done.

NetMageSCW 20 days ago [–]

As pointed out already, most of that uses C code or GPU code to do the work and not slow Python code.

cestith 19 days ago | [–]

A pretty good portion uses Fortran code, too.

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