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		Fomite on Feb 16, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: R, the master troll of statistical languages (2012... My usual take on this: "Between R and Python, the faster language is likely whichever library author actually wrote most of their code in C or FORTRAN."

mikeskim on Feb 17, 2016 [–]

Pypy is actually much faster than both standard Python 2.7 and R in basically everything requiring the standard library.

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