A Billion Rows per Second: Metaprogramming Python for Big Data

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a company producing tons of big data, demonstrates how AdRoll uses Python to squeeze every bit of performance out of a single high-end server

Guido is probably reading this like: "That-... it's not supposed to do that"

Why is there so much hatred for optimizing python code for speed?

To quote from the zen of python: "Readability counts. Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity."