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"Most Python code at Google isn't performance critical." What about AppEngine? The primary 'cloud' platform at Google.
by nikcub 16y ago
"Most Python code at Google isn't performance critical."
What about AppEngine? The primary 'cloud' platform at Google.
- jjm 16y agoYou would think that such a product would in fact be an excellent candidate for high performance but I believe that group strives more toward process scalability than any particular low level optimization.
- rbanffy 16y agoMost of the time in GAE is lost to latencies between the various subsystems (much like most web frameworks). Unless you are doing something processor-heavy (and you probably shouldn't do that on GAE), chances are you are waiting more for the network (or the datastore) than anything else.