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by deno 3581 days ago
The fastest streaming example on that list (csv-parser) is still 5× slower than Python.
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Which I'd assume has to do with the overhead of dispatching a ton of asynchronous events for relatively little parsed data rather than the intrinsic speed of node, the fastest synchronous parsers of the list are about on-par with Python.