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What's this written in?

One of the founders here - it's written in a combination of C, Python and Numpy. We had to go low-level to make it fast, but it's still portable.

Doesn't having it in Python mean that its memory requirements are moderately large in comparison to pure C++ code?

We kept that in mind - the actual core is written in C, Python is used mainly for auxiliary jobs (parsing etc.)