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by marginalia_nu 1637 days ago
In general, speed isn't the problem with search (at least the retrieval aspect), but memory efficiency is. Things like small object overhead and the ability to memory map large data ranges are extremely beneficial for a language if you want to implement a search index.

But I agree, get it working first, then re-implement it in another language if it turns out to be necessary.