Index of maximum element in list

[Paul Rubin]

bearophileHUGS at lycos.com writes:
> The final sum: the Psyco version is almost 40 times faster than the
> Python version, and just 2.8 times slower than the D version, and 3.4
> times slower than a C version (that doesn't use too many pointer
> tricks). I think this is good enough.

I can't help wishing that psyco could do as good a job with the
simpler expressions of that function.  I'll have to see what JHC does.