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Re:I Use Nim Instead of Python for Data Processing by aargh_aargh on Friday September 06, 2024 @01:59AM (#41463288)
> > so it’s usually not worth spending a ton of time optimizing single-threaded performance for a single experiment when I can just perform a big MapReduce.

> Is this the scientific version of "rich people problems"?

It's more like

  programming to solve many people's recurring problem and selling that as a product
vs.

  programming to solve one man's many different ad hoc problems.
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