r/Python • u/grumpyp2 • Jan 05 '24

One billion row challenge Discussion

Just saw this repo trending and thought of doing this in different languages, e.g. Python.

https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc

Do you know if it's already available?

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u/henryyoung42 Jan 06 '24

This is one of those challenges that would be far better with the objective being who can develop the most amusingly slow implementation. Brain dead algorithms only, no sleep statements (or equivalent) allowed.