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The thing is, it takes a huge scale for web apps before python becomes your bottleneck. Between caching, async, task queue, reverse proxes, databases and compil
by BiteCode_dev 4y ago
The thing is, it takes a huge scale for web apps before python becomes your bottleneck. Between caching, async, task queue, reverse proxes, databases and compiled extensions, you have so many performant options to glue with python that any hardware saving is more likely affected by your choice between redis, postgres and clickhouse than by the language you query them with.
- dimator 4y agoExactly. It's fine that the PSF and others are tackling performance seriously. But in addition to your point, in the 90% (made up on the spot) of the problems python is perfectly suited for, performance is simply not a consideration.