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Why should they rewrite everything if it works for them?

• sdfsdufihwfuhdf 10y ago
  because it doesn't. What they're doing is borderline crazy. Similar to turning off the GC in the JVM... once you reach that point why not just use a more suitable language? Java/Golang/Rust/C++/C# are all about 100X faster than Python. Wouldn't it be more reasonable to use one of those than mess with the runtome to squeeze out 20% more performance?
  • kirkdouglas 10y ago
    It does. They're profitable even with fairly small engineering team considering size of their user base.
  • kbd 10y ago
    > Similar to turning off the GC in the JVM It's absolutely not the same. The JVM uses GC for all object collection. Python uses reference counting and only relies on GC to clean up cycles.
  • smcdow 10y ago
    > turning off the GC in the JVM very common in the HFT world