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Re:Filesystem devs should aim to make “badly written” app co... by sojmq on Sunday December 01, 2019 @05:39AM (#21674852)
Problem is when you have a shitty language like Python that does almost no optimisations so you're forced to write "clever" code if you want it to run reasonably fast.
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Re:Filesystem devs should aim to make “badly written” app co... by TeMPOraL on Sunday December 01, 2019 @06:43AM (#21675018)
If you must use Python, then pawn off the important work to C. Half of the reason this language exists for is easy FFI, and that's all the popular libraries get enough performance to be usable for non-toy applications.
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