TC wrote:
> The basic code on a 1 MHz PC in 1984 (very optimitic - probably the Atari 
> CPU was slower) ran 100x slower than python on a 2400 MHz single core (he 
> mentions old harware).

Um, first, no. You didn't even read down to the end of the article, where he 
explains it's 108,000 times as fast.

> - computers got faster since 1984 (surprise)

He wasn't being surprising. Look at the link at the top.

> - Python is being interpreted 24x slower than ancient BASIC (at least per 
> MHz)

That isn't the point of the article. Indeed, the entire article is a follow 
up to an article that says "Would you kindly STFU about which language is 
faster, when they're all 100,000 times as fast as what you used at the start 
of your career?"

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