I think the author suggested that the cause of some of the latency might be the processing in Python as data goes through the ORM. I like the Django ORM but it

I think the author suggested that the cause of some of the latency might be the processing in Python as data goes through the ORM. I like the Django ORM but it does not prioritize speed. It's possible that Python time plus the ORM doing something stupid (perhaps multiple round trips to the DB, reconnects, or weird instrumentation in the DB router or manager) could account for those extra milliseconds.