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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If i needed speed i wouldnt be programming in python.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

also, if I needed speed I wouldn't be printing stuff every 100k instructions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.