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		minitech on Jan 29, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PyO3: Rust Bindings for the Python Interpreter I’m not going to install it to check, but when someone writes “Fast datetime parser for Python written in Rust. Parses 10x-15x faster than datetime.strptime.” it seems reasonable to assume that this is not the case.

throwaway894345 on Jan 29, 2021 [–]

Depends on whether or not the parent is including the overhead in their statistic. Misinformation about microbenchmarks is hardly a rarity.

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