> On 17 Jul 2019, at 05:17, Nam Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 1:18 PM Barry <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> > On 16 Jul 2019, at 04:47, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas 
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > 
> > How often do you need to parse a million URLs in your inner loop?
> 
> As it happens i work on code that would be impacted by such a slow down. It 
> runs in production 24x7 and parses URLs on its critical path.
> 
> It does not have to be either or ;). In general, I would prefer security / 
> correctness over performance.

Of course.

> But if your use cases call for performance, it is perfectly fine to 
> understand the tradeoffs, and opt in to the more appropriate solutions. And, 
> of course, maybe there is a solution that could satisfy *both*.
> 
> Generally speaking, though, do you see 1 millisecond spent on parsing a URL 
> deal breaker? I sense that some web frameworks might not like that very much, 
> but I don't have any concrete use case to quote.

Yes 1ms would be a serious issue.

I guess what I'm concerned about is the use of a universal parser for a benefit 
I'm not clear exists having a terrible affect of the speed of code that is 
secure and correct.


Barry

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> Barry
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