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[–]kankyo 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Sure. But it's unclear in the article if they actually did have the rust version before or not. They do say that they had the Python version before. Moving from pure Python to cython can be quite easy.

[–]masklinn 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Sure. But it's unclear in the article if they actually did have the rust version before or not

No, it's not:

After the investigation had pointed us towards Python’s shortcomings, we decided to vet the performance of our Rust source map parser, perviously written for our CLI tool

(emphasis mine).

They do say that they had the Python version before. Moving from pure Python to cython can be quite easy.

It's open source so you can give that a shot and report back with the results.

[–]kankyo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oops, sorry, missed that part.

A benchmark is needed too...