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Of course I'm not sure I'd trust to install or use in my main machine something that has been 100% written by an LLM, that doesn't have enough reviews and scrutiny, but the numbers look astounding:

    codebase   pylint       prylint     speedup
    black      26.7 hr      41s         2328×

Quite believable if the test was run on a machine with little RAM and generous/unbounded swap. Not sure these are the numbers we want to see. Anything can take days if it swaps to death.

"Buy more RAM" usually isn't the thing I want to hear when my linter is slow.

TBH this is true only on the root of black. If you do `uvx pylint src/` it takes 5s on my machine.

It's still impressive but it looks like a pathological case in a test directory.

Yes it's that, in particular `duplicate-code`.

`pylint . --disable=R0801` will work, `pylint profiling/ --enable=duplicate-code` doesn't seem to exit in a reasonable time. So that's likely hitting some pathological case, possibly accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com material.

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