I write media stuff. Code in the media pipeline proper gets ultraoptimized because it gets run between 30 and ~10k times per second. Code outside of the pipel

I write media stuff. Code in the media pipeline proper gets ultraoptimized because it gets run between 30 and ~10k times per second. Code outside of the pipeline is largely written in python because the extra startup time, while non-trivial, is noise compared to the time waiting for PSI to be delivered. The point is that "computers are slow" is, at least in some part, because "just works" requires a mind-numbing number of operations.