Open Stack

On May 9, 2016, at 2:52 PM, Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com> wrote:

>> Whenever I hear claims that Python is “too slow for X”, I wonder what’s so special about X that makes it so much more demanding than, say, serving up YouTube. YouTube is written nearly entirely in Python, and has been for many, many years. The only parts that aren’t are those that were identified as particular performance bottlenecks, such as some parts of the encoding process. These were then written in C, which is drop-in compatible with Python using ctypes.
> 
> NO, we should paint it yellow!

Not even close to bikeshedding. C extensions live all throughout the Python world, and are not the equivalent of a completely new language to the ecosystem. And the point was to simply speed up the bottleneck, not the entire project.

-- Ed Leafe