unsigned 32 bit arithmetic type?

[Robin Becker]

sturlamolden wrote:
> Robin Becker wrote:
> 
>> it's probably wonderful, but I don't think I can ask people to add numpy to the
>> list of requirements for reportlab :)
> 
........
> This was Matlab, but the same holds for Python and NumPy. The overhead
> in the first code sniplet comes from calling the interpreter inside a
> tight loop. That is why loops are the root of evilness when doung CPU
> bound tasks in an interpreted language. I would think that 9 out of 10
> tasks most Python users think require a C extension is actually more
> easily solved with NumPy. This is old knowledge from the Matlab
> community: even if you think you need a "MEX file" (that is, a C
> extension for Matlab), you probably don't. Vectorize and it will be
> fast enough.
> 

I think you're preaching to the converted. The very first serious thing I did in 
python involved a generational accounting model calculation that was translated 
from matlab into Numeric/python. It ran about 10 times faster than matlab and 
about 5 times faster than a matlab compiler.
-- 
Robin Becker