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Re:Pydis – Redis clone in 250 lines of Python, for performan... by ImprobableTruth on Sunday November 15, 2020 @07:02AM (#25100507)
>You can just write good Python and get almost as fast code as C that will take you 5 times less time to develop.

Sure, if someone has done the actual core work in C already that is.

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Re:Pydis – Redis clone in 250 lines of Python, for performan... by pydry on Sunday November 15, 2020 @07:54AM (#25100804)
Which, for uvloop, somebody already had - for a completely different purpose.

I think most people are usually quite surprised at how concentrated and how generic most hot paths can be. Theres a heavy power law distribution for the linesof code most code spends its time on.

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