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As the Topaz guy said, the slowness is due to the abuse of hash table lookups, allocation and copying (HTLAC) https://speakerdeck.com/alex/why-python-ruby-and-javascript-...

And the abuse of HTLAC patterns is due to the lack of non-HTLAC APIs; the syntax is trascurable




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