[brundolf]

Maybe they did it in bulk? i.e. send all the strings over at once, parse them in a loop, send them back. Seems like that would reduce overhead

[throwaway894345]

Right, and that makes sense, but the context here is a date parsing library for Python--unless said library has a batch interface, I'm not sure how that would improve performance, but maybe I'm misestimating something.

[brundolf]

Ah, I skimmed over the part where this is a library and not application-code