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 lookups.
 
 + Written in pure C, with less than 15,000 lines of source code. Your CPU has
-better things to do than load the python runtime ;-)
+better things to do than load the python runtime 10,000 times a day ;-)
 
 + Efficient enough to run every 0.4 seconds without monopolizing a CPU core on a
 modest server.