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zem 19 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp

people don't usually think of C as a host platform, but the python community has a similarly symbiotic relationship with C extensions.

erichocean 19 days ago | [–]

Since Java 25/Project Panama, I have that kind of relationship with C from Clojure as well.

Codex can one shot the bindings flawlessly, and the interface is significantly faster for downcalls vs. JNI.

pjmlp 18 days ago | [–]

Hence why it is such a sad story with JIT compilers in Python.

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