On Tue, 10 May 2016 at 05:19 Edward Leafe <e...@leafe.com> wrote: > On May 9, 2016, at 1:58 PM, Hayes, Graham <graham.ha...@hpe.com> wrote: > > > This is not a "Go seems cool - lets go try that" decision from us - we > > know we have a performance problem with one of our components, and we > > have come to the conclusion that Go (or something like it) is the > > solution. > > 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. >
(Just in case there is any confusion here, no part of serving a youtube *video* to users involves python. I believe the *web UI* is/was generated using python (and then cached aggressively, etc) - but I'm less familiar with the HTML parts of youtube) - Gus
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