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		bearzoo on Oct 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pyston v2: Faster Python many scientific computing applications are considered to be bounded by io

kzrdude on Oct 28, 2020 [–]

rather famously, one needs an intense operation like matrix multiplication to get cpu bound (an operation that has many enough arithmetic operations per data element, for I/O to not dominate).

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