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A typical use case is pushing loops in the hot path of your code to the C++ space. A simple loop that does nothing like `for i in range(int(1e9)): pass` takes about 20 seconds to execute in Python on my machine, whereas in C++ the overhead would be thousands times smaller.

Because there's also overhead for transferring objects to/from pybind11 (it has to keep track of object lifetimes, figure out the conversions, etc), it's generally more beneficial to wrap big chunks of logic in C++ rather than every single method.



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