AIHacker Noonabout 10 hours ago
AI Industry Pays a Python Tax
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The AI industry runs most of its code in Python, which ranks 26th out of 27 languages in energy efficiency. PyTorch is only 64% Python; the performant core is C++ and CUDA. Unoptimized LLM engines spend up to half their time on Python overhead, not computation.
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