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Also in the context of cloud spend: way way way less RAM, which can translate directly to dollars.
by steveklabnik 4y ago
Also in the context of cloud spend: way way way less RAM, which can translate directly to dollars.
- cozzyd 4y agoYeah, I just wrote a simple daemon in C that had no performance requirements ( listening to a udp socket and dumping stuff into a pgsql db once a minute) because the Python program would use like at least 20x the RAM. When you're running a bunch of things on a resource constrained place (e.g. a single computer that has to do a ton of things sitting on a rack on the Greenland ice sheet), even just the base Python memory usage from a new process adds up...