[dijit]

It's not a bad design, it's just the reference implementation is python based, and, well, a reference implementation; so they don't do too much for optimisations and focus instead on readability.

When Matrix as a protocol settles more, we'll start seeing optimised versions of the server, I'm certain of it.

[ptman]

dendrite, the next-gen server written in go, made good progress this summer thanks to GSoC, but contributions are always welcome