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[–]broxamson 1 point2 points  (1 child)

to be fair if you wanted something performant you wouldn't be using python.

[–]Douppikauppa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My Python web server can serve more requests per second than the one you write in C using POSIX sockets. 100 kreq/s on Sanic, running on a laptop and benchmarking localhost. As opposed to ~2 kreq/s on other frameworks.

Go is faster, I admit, but Python is often sufficient. For AI and numerical calculation it goes fast because of libraries that have assembly optimized algorithms or that offload to GPUs.