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lacker on March 12, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Did You Know: BeautifulSoup's bits are rotting

Its performance is getting worse over time because maintaining its speed requires more maintenance than anyone is willing to give it, at least so far. I would call that bit rot too.

I think both of you agree that the original author deserves only thanks.

calambrac on March 13, 2009 [–]

But that's not what the linked article is about at all. If you have benchmarks and you want to write that article, by all means, do it.

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