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1. 1.▲
   by hgftr 3y ago

   It seems to me that he has tried to keep Python for the web relevant at Dropbox by adding typing and asyncio, but Dropbox switched to Golang. Now he is trying to keep it relevant for the web by adding the small speedups. (I say "he&quo
2. 2.▲
   by hgftr 3y ago

   I don't see the GP expecting anything. GP talks about good engineering decisions, using C-extensions when appropriate would be one of those. But C-extensions don't require the small speedups and additional interpreter complexity t
3. 3.▲
   by hgftr 3y ago

   The largest number I have seen for microbenchmarks is around 50% speedup in comparison to the last version before this project started. So, if that version was 40x slower than C (and that is very optimistic), the latest version is still 30x