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Counting CPU Instructions in Python (blog.mattstuchlik.com)
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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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[–] 8 points 2 years ago*

so 200 to 800 microseconds on a modern cpu? Fast enough.

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