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How Python was Shaped by leaky Internals, Armin Ronacher, Flask framework
Видео с мероприятий {speach! · Discussed on HN from 2017 to 2025
Topics and ideas
- 01cpython
- 02performance
- 03jit
Armin Ronacher, creator of Flask, explains how CPython's internals and C API leak into the language's semantics. Using examples like the complexity of the add operation, he shows why Python is hard to optimize or reimplement.
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Shows CPython internals lack a spec and hinder new runtimes.
“This talk shows how bad of shape it's really in.”Read the original HN comment
ericfrederich · 2017-01 · 15 recommenders across 16 months
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