https://yosefk.com/cgi-bin/comments.cgi?post=blog/a-100x-speedup-with-unsafe-python#comments Comments on "A 100x speedup with unsafe Python" by Yossi Kreinin http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Yossi Kreinin's ugly publishing software https://yosefk.com/blog/self.jpg https://yosefk.com/cgi-bin/comments.cgi?post=blog/a-100x-speedup-with-unsafe-python#comments 144 144 en Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:00:02 +0000 https://yosefk.com/cgi-bin/comments.cgi?post=blog/a-100x-speedup-with-unsafe-python#comment-d76c69de-0d68-4ed4-9b79-ea852c35ad6c It's hard to argue that something will never happens; at most we can bet on whether something will happen by a given date. But my question is more about what's popular right now, and why (eg why a C++ program with a Python extension API seems more popular than a Python program in C libraries for something like Krita or Blender - is it inertia, or something deeper than that; eg ComfyUI is an example of a Python program with C libraries but perhaps it's just a sufficiently different beast rather than a "trend reversion signal".) I could speculate on this on my own but it's interesting what more experienced people think.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2024 23:05:36 +0000 Yossi Kreinin https://yosefk.com/cgi-bin/comments.cgi?post=blog/a-100x-speedup-with-unsafe-python#comment-f6c06ee6-ad6a-4533-89eb-6790b4689107 I remain convinced that this kind of design is mostly for historical reasons, and that ML-family languages where you can get both good enough performance and good enough usability (which might even include Rust, though I don't think I've ever seen it used as an embedded scripting language) are the future. I know it's hard to leave that much performance on the table though.

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