[Matrix-SIG] performance hit in c extensions

[Heather Drury]

Hi,

I have sucessfully written wrappers for most of my C code so
I can call the modules directly from python. Unfortunately,
it *appears* that the code executes about 50% slower (I haven't
actually timed it) when called from python versus being 
called from the command line. I would not have thought
there would be any performance impact. 
Does that seem reasonable?

Thanks,

Heather 
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