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by RedCrowbar 1414 days ago
Only the query compiler is in pure Python and you only hit that once per query, as the compilation result is trivially cached. The hot path is a combination of Cython, C and Rust. We have a suite of benchmarks [1] that show relative overhead of EdgeDB compared to raw Postgres is quite low.

[1] https://github.com/edgedb/imdbench

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It's not a rational concern, but it still is a concern.