Cython taking more time than regular Python

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 6:05:07 PM UTC+12, Gregory Ewing wrote:
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> Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
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>> It may take a microsecond to call a functino from Python.
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> Obviously the compiler used was a "dump" compiler. :-)

Don’t forget “functino”. :)

For some reason it awakens half-remembered memories of undergrad physics lectures ... is that the gauge boson for the function field? Or is that a “functon”? One of them might be spin-½ ...