[SciPy-User] <transferred from Scipy-Dev>Re: Seeking help/ advice for applying functions

[Robert Kern]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 13:51, eat <e.antero.tammi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not only that I'm new to Scipy/ Numpy but I'm new to python aswell.
> I think I assumed that once python functions get compiled they'll would be
> (almost) as efficient than builtins.

No, not at all. Python functions do not get compiled to machine code.
They get compiled to Python bytecode, but that Python bytecode is
interpreted. Python functions have tons of overhead compared to
builtins.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco