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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: "Python is 71x Slower, Uses 75x More Energy, Than C" - YouTube
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 23:59:19 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 14:59:01 -0400, James Kuyper wrote:

> On 7/31/24 08:13, jseigh wrote:
>>
>> ... and if they are using
>> reference counting to manage memory it's going to perform very badly
>> compared to Java GC.
> 
> Keep in mind that this is not an "unsupported claim" - it's the result
> of measurements ...

Yeah, I wonder why Java fan(atic)s keep spouting that nonsense. Other 
languages (Perl, Python) have shown the benefits of having reference 
counting as a first resort, only falling back to garbage collection to 
handle those (less frequent) cases where it is needed.