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by jazzyjackson 1530 days ago
> I guess it's in the nature of Python to leverage internal/external modules written in a statically-typed compiled language to deliver high performance on core functionalities.

I'm aware of python leveraging compiled C or even FORTRAN to run certain functions, does it do message passing with a forked process or something else? I'm having a hard time googling for how it works since I don't know what it's called.

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Are you familiar with foreign function interfaces? [0] Threading can be handled Either by the host program or the C / Fortran code.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/extending/extending.html