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by zahlman 230 days ago
... Actually, could you show me where they said it? I've been explaining it from first principles from a while now and it would be nice to be able to go "but don't take my word for it" as well.

(Python does incur a hefty performance penalty for things that are actually CPU bound. But that doesn't describe most of the process of installing Python packages; and the main part that is CPU bound is implemented by CPython in C.)