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by zaxomi 942 days ago
No matter what language they choose, someone will complain and ask "why X, why not Y or Z?"
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Right which is part of why dictating the implementation language up front as part of the bounty is a mistake. They should have put the bounty on the speedup factor they're looking for and let it sort itself out.

My not-completely-naive guess is an expert optimizer can get the improvement they're looking for with only small parts or maybe even none of it rewritten in another language.