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Really cool project!

I am curious about the benefits and limitations of using Python in this project as opposed to C++. How well is LearnDB able to support low-level concurrency control and storage management?

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I began using python as a way to "mock" out the overall design; intending to re-implement it in rust. The main reasoning for using python: was the ability to focus on "high-level" concepts and speed of tinkering. This implements a single process, single thread, single connection database- so performance and low-level concurrency control were not explicit goals or really optimized for. For those (real-live concerns) rust or C++ are much better; but also come with their set of complexities.

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