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by HenriTEL 164 days ago
Python is slow but in my experience (that mostly relates to web services and data processing) I found that I/O was by far the biggest bottleneck. Waiting for the database, another http service or local storage, which often takes more than 1ms anyway.
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Yep.

Except when it’s not I/O.