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• ez77 17y ago
  Thanks! You guys rock! Also, would you therefore guess most of Google's search engine is written in C?
  • lliiffee 17y ago
    I really don't know, but I would guess Google's search engine is almost all C/C++. When you are operating at that scale, it makes sense to invest huge programmer time for very small speed increases. As to "normal" people, I do a lot of numerical computing using python+C. I end up with probably 90% of the code in python, and 10% inner loops in C. That's typically enough that the C code is taking, say, 50% of the time, at which it isn't worth it (for me) to move more python into C, since I could never buy myself more than a factor of 2 speedup.