
Python Bytes
Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker
4.7from 265 ratings
- 497
- Episodes
- 117
- Transcribed
- 265
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
- 165K
- YouTube views
About Python Bytes
Python Bytes is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker. The show is a short discussion on the headlines and noteworthy news in the Python, developer, and data science space.
- Publisher
- Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker
- Category
- news · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Nov 2016
- Latest episode
- 23 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
117 of 497 episodes have a transcript.

23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
#497 Faster than light profiling

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#496 A lake house in Seattle

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#495 Banned
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#497 Faster than light profiling
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] If you're trying to do threading, CPU is, imagine there was no waits in the world. If I wait on a database, that doesn't count because that's external. I can't address that. It's not part of my program. So let's pretend that the stuff I'm waiting on doesn't exist. That's the CPU mode. Wall mode is like traditional. And exceptions is just how much time are you spending handling exceptions and errors. I think there's a bunch of stuff here. Check out the docs I linked to. The little TOC on the left is ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, for people, if you get down to the point where you need to profile, you know, you've got a serious performance problem because you don't take profiling typically lightly. […]
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- YouTube views
- 165,258
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 213 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 52 ratings
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- 91
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 99
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