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   Graham Sutherland🎃 / Polynomial.pdf.exe (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jul-2025 12:37:37 JST Graham Sutherland🎃 / Polynomial.pdf.exe

   • SnoopJ

   @SnoopJ it's Stackless Python so it does at least sort of have threading but yeah, still has global interpreter lock iirc, kinda interesting choice

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     tef (tef@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jul-2025 12:37:32 JST tef

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     @gsuberland @jsbarretto @SnoopJ

     iirc they have "time dilation" or when there's too many users in one point in space and time

     the whole thing is sharded but every so often everyone has a battle on one node heh

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jul-2025 12:37:32 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • tef

     @tef @gsuberland @jsbarretto @SnoopJ i wrote a network card entirely in python once and it can handle hundreds of megabits of traffic even when it shuffles individual packets around

     this is without any jit. just normal cpython

     people _really_ underestimate cpython a lot

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     Graham Sutherland🎃 / Polynomial.pdf.exe (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jul-2025 12:37:34 JST Graham Sutherland🎃 / Polynomial.pdf.exe

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     @jsbarretto @SnoopJ it's server side authoritative so it's not exactly lightweight work

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     Joshua Barretto (jsbarretto@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jul-2025 12:37:35 JST Joshua Barretto

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     @gsuberland @SnoopJ That is really interesting. I guess on the server side there probably isn't that much actual number crunching going on

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     tef (tef@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jul-2025 12:39:28 JST tef

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     @whitequark @gsuberland @jsbarretto @SnoopJ

     shuffling bytes around with dynamic languages is very much the "never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tape" school of programming

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jul-2025 12:40:38 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • tef

     @tef @gsuberland @jsbarretto @SnoopJ exactly

     that and maintaining algorithmic complexity low

     _should_ you do this in your business? hell no, use rust or lua or something. what i'm doing is an overly drawn out party trick. but if you choose to do it for some reason, you can often just pull it off