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Did you know it takes about 17,000 CPU instructions to print("Hello") in Python? And that it takes ~2 billion of them to import a module?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Is it just me... or is there a lot of python hate lately?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ahh...that makes sense. I bet you're right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

People use Python a lot as a Matlab, Excel/VBA, or R alternative. That was my use for many years. Some of these are compute focused problems and if the dataset is large enough and the computations complex enough then speed can be an issue.

As far as loading packages and printing. Who cares. These are not computationally intensive and are typically IO bound.

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