Python Performance

[Skip Montanaro]

    Eugene> Skip Montanaro writes:
    >> True.  I was thinking about the situation I'm in (small developer, a few
    >> machines to maintain/upgrade/replace).

    Eugene> What's wrong with recoding the hot spots in C? Python is
    primarily a rapid prototyping/scripting/glue language, it was never
    meant as a sole implementation language for applications.

There's nothing wrong with recoding hot spots in C.  Many people do it all
the time.  Practically speaking, however, many Python users don't have the
technical depth or other resource (VC++, for instance) to write chunks of
their applications in C or C++.

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