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Re:PyPy and Psyco by mojonixon on Sunday March 15, 2009 @05:16PM (#517258)
Raw execution speed matters when dealing with Google sized data sets, but Google and organizations with similar requirements can just throw more hardware at it.
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Re:PyPy and Psyco by anamax on Sunday March 15, 2009 @09:45PM (#517587)
Google uses C++ for compute-bound stuff.

Google's problems are big enough that constants matter.

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