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Well, we already know Python is inherently slower than Rust or any compiled language really, so does one really need metrics to know that the Rust implementation was faster?

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Yes. If your bottleneck is magnetic disc seeking times, no amount of language change is going to move the needle (hah!).

a perf change without perf numbers is a bug

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