Python is far from a top performer according to benchmark test...

[Krzysztof Stachlewski]

"Carl" <phleum_nospam at chello.se> wrote in message
news:ryELb.238$tK2.228 at amstwist00...

> I have been experimenting with numerical algorithms in Python with a heavy
> use of the Numeric module. My experience is that Python is quite fast in
> comparison with (and sometimes as fast as) traditional languages such as C
> or C++.

With "heavy use of Numeric module" you were calling functions
written in C. So how can you say that Python is fast,
when C code is doing all the work.

Stach