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ihnorton
on May 10, 2014
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Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood
The internet says it is written in Java:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail
(possibly with some Python build tools, for which performance doesn't matter)
mike_hearn
on May 10, 2014
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The Gmail frontend is Java. The backend (mail routing, spam filtering, virus checking and parts of storage etc) is C++.
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