• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    There are a few reasons for this, some of the most important being:

    • The languages were not designed with speed primarily in mind and as such made some design decisions that fundamentally cannot be optimized around
    • Authors of programs in these languages prioritize things other than performance when writing the programs.

    Speed is not just about processors becoming faster - this is a large part of why DSA is important to learn as a programmer.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      They do have optimizations however they are interpreted at runtime so they can only be so fast