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Did you know it takes about 17,000 CPU instructions to print("Hello") in Python? And that it takes ~2 billion of them to import a module?

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[โ€“] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If I needed speed, I'd be programming in Python but then profiling the performance and re-writing the inner loops and such to call C or BLAS.

[โ€“] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Surly u can use rust these days?