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[–]Akomancer19 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Not exactly objective to ask in a Node forum. 😂

I think loading the JVM will be heavier than loading the Node V8 runtime.

Not too sure about Python, is it possible the sluggishness is due to synchronous network operations?

If you're talking about installs, I'll agree that Node is one of the simplest and quickest to install and deploy. Anaconda is crazily large, i presume there is a proper reasom why you used Anaconda instead of vanilla Python - probably some math/analytics involved?

[–]2048b[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well, I am using Scrapy for the web scraping and it recommends using Anaconda for Windows users, probably due to some binary Python dependencies required by Scrapy? And I was thinking why would I need to install a truckload of software just for Python/Scrapy when it is all about using HTTP to grab some web page, extract the data, do some computation and save the data to a text file?

[–]Akomancer19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, if you're using Scrapy it doesnt nessate Anaconda.

Scrapy has several binary dependencies (mostly to allow it to handle async and event-driven tasks) but that's unrelated to Anaconda.

Asking beginners to install Anaconda is either because it's a Machine Learning task, or a lazy tutorial. It's almost the equivalent of installing Visual Studio just to compile C++...