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If people wonder why there are so many tools for the slowest language on the planet:

In addition to being slow and unsuited for abstractions, people write horrible code with layers and layers of abstractions in Python. These tools can sometimes help with that.

People who do write streamlined code that necessarily uses C-extensions in Python will probably use cachegrind/helgrind/gprof etc.

Or switch to another language, which avoids many categories of other issues.



Python might be not great on using CPU time, but is saves a lot of human time for writing the code compared to "fast" languages.


Opening throwaway accounts just to rage against things you don't understand is really shameful.




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