Real-world Python code 700 times slower than C

[Skip Montanaro]

    Paul> Looking at the programs, I would suspect that most of the
    Paul> difference is that Python has to allocate and free the array
    Paul> 100000 times, but the C program doesn't.

No, that's not the difference.  The Python code Brent posted only allocates
the array once:

    def main():
        array = [0]*10000
        for i in xrange(100):
            Ramp(array, 10000, 0.0, 1.0)

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