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Counting CPU Instructions in Python (blog.mattstuchlik.com)
submitted 8 months ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/python@programming.dev
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Did you know it takes about 17,000 CPU instructions to print("Hello") in Python? And that it takes ~2 billion of them to import a module?

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[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

In fact, Python is still decent even if you do need speed. We compared Python and Rust for algorithm processing, and we got similar-ish numbers when using numba. Rust was certainly faster, but we would need to retrain a lot of our team, and numba was plenty fast.

Python is fast enough, and if it's not, there are libraries to get it there.