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ericfrederich on April 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere

Why is this yet another implementation of Python? If C is supported why not use CPython itself?

grashalm01 on April 19, 2018 [–]

Because Graal.python will be a lot faster. Just running cpython on GraalVm is possible but does not get you anything.

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