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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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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

If I needed speed, I'd be programming in Python but then profiling the performance and re-writing the inner loops and such to call C or BLAS.

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