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Old 11-08-2018, 11:07 AM  
sarettah
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Originally Posted by shake View Post
I've found Python really useful for some projects, but I'm mostly using nodejs now.

I just used Python3 to sort through a list of 255 Million items in a 4.5 Gig file and remove duplicates, it takes 133 seconds - which seems quite fast to me.
Yeah Python can be pretty fast. How fast a program runs is often a reflection of the coder who designed and wrote it. You can take the most efficient language and use it to write slow and clunky code or you can use an old inefficient language and write good, fact code.

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