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		brundolf on Jan 29, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PyO3: Rust Bindings for the Python Interpreter Maybe they did it in bulk? i.e. send all the strings over at once, parse them in a loop, send them back. Seems like that would reduce overhead

throwaway894345 on Jan 29, 2021 [–]

Right, and that makes sense, but the context here is a date parsing library for Python--unless said library has a batch interface, I'm not sure how that would improve performance, but maybe I'm misestimating something.

brundolf on Jan 29, 2021 | [–]

Ah, I skimmed over the part where this is a library and not application-code

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