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by malborodog 1184 days ago
When you say text indexing and serving http are library functions, what do you mean? Also, is the language here go or what? Since you said python is too slow and then necessitates all the infra to manage it.
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Go or any language that actually gets compiled down to machine code to get executed directly on the hardware, and where libraries are compiled into the final product.

When I say something is a library function, I mean you just compile it into your code. In your code, you just call the function.

This is in contrast to the current defactor practice of making an http request to ask another program (potentially on a different machine) to do the work.

Beautiful. Got it; thank you.