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by TeMPOraL 1105 days ago
We're not talking about 10% factors, but 10x factors between slow and fast languages. People say CPU usage doesn't matter when you're horizontally scaling, but horizontal scaling increases your ongoing operational costs, and you often are horizontally scaling precisely because your code is too slow.
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What percentage of cpu time do you think would be spent in python land?