Larry (Mr. Prototype) on Nostr: The more I use Python, the more I understand why the performance is poor - it ...
The more I use Python, the more I understand why the performance is poor - it abstracts away so much of how a computer actually works that it makes it "business as usual" to duplicate/convert/enlarge data at every step of your code. When the data is large and the code bogs down, that's when you're forced to examine all of the memory mismanagement.
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