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alternative joke
C++: “Hey, what’s your name?”
Python: *grabs C++* “what is my name?”please explain I want to laugh
Pythons weak typing means it never knows what is what. It’s up to the programmer to not screw it up.
I think it’s more that a ton of popular python libraries (things like pandas, tensor, etc) are actually built in C, so python is just C wearing a mask
I know people joke around about this a lot. But I was blown away by a recent switch to I did from using cv2 with python to using cv2 with C++.
I had literally hundreds of thousands of images to analyze for a dataset. My python script would have taken 12 hours.
I ported it to C++ and it literally destroyed it in 20 minutes.
I’m sure I was doing something that really wasn’t optimized well for python. I know somewhere in the backend it probably was using a completely different library with multi thread optimization. Or maybe turbojpg is just garbage in python. I’m still not even sure what the bottleneck was. I don’t know enough to really explain why.
But holy shit. I never had that much of a performance difference in such a simple task.
Was very impressed.
If you had let me write the C++ code, I could have literally destroyed your dataset in a couple of seconds.
I don’t even need C++ for this just give me a rm with a side dish of -rf
