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You are right, that's usually not how it works.

Instead, there are big companies, who are running let's say the majority of their workloads in python. It's working well, it doesn't need to be very performant, but together all of the workloads are representing a considerable portion of your compute spend.

At a certain scale it makes sense to employ experts who can for example optimize Python itself, or the Linux kernel, or your DBMS. Not because you need the performance improvement for any specific workload, but to shave off 2% of your total compute spend.

This isn't applicable to small or medium companies usually, but it can work out for bigger ones.



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