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