[crdoconnor]

This is what happens when you follow the fashion driven development merry go round:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LO_WI3N-3p2Wp9PDWyv5...

Re-implementing the hot path (which is likely to be a small piece of code) in a non-garbage collected language (C or ideally Rust) is a much more sane approach than the big bang rewrite:

https://blog.sentry.io/2016/10/19/fixing-python-performance-...