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Also 800 ms is NOT a reasonable response time to generate what basically is a bunch of text, that is absurd, but I guess this is the baseline in 2019.

I trust all IO is cached. The author can confirm it. This is just how slow Python is.

hmnomon Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

So what you're saying is that the author of Sourcehat is expected to rewrite Flask, Jinja2, etc in C?

As an example, https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/git.sr.ht/tree/master/gitsrht takes 600-800 ms to generate, and it's probably heavily cached already. What will happen when they get more users? The site will be unbearably slow, unless the guy starts spending thousands in servers.

hmnomon A Telegram bug that disclose phone numbers of any users in public groups

It could be argued you already had the phone number of your victim.

If mobile numbers in your country are in the 2________ range, how feasible is it to add millions of phone numbers to your contact list to find out the number of someone? I think this is nonsensical.

hmnomon Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

It's written in Python so as soon as they have enough users it will be as slow as any webpage with tons of JS. Thankfully, that CPU load won't be on the client side... so it's still an improvement