Python is darn fast (was: How fast is Python)

[John J. Lee]

danbmil99 at yahoo.com (dan) writes:

> mis6 at pitt.edu (Michele Simionato) wrote in message 
> news:<2259b0e2.0308240638.38350cba at posting.google.com>...
[...]
> This is a far cry from the factor of 10-30 I've been seeing with pure
> python.  For performance-critical code, this could be the difference
> between hand-coding 5% versus 20% of your code.
> 
> Excellent news!!

If you care about this a lot, don't forget Pyrex.


John