Speeding up Python

[Robin Becker]

In article <7um9l5$c99 at mail.psy.uva.nl>, Ionel Simionescu
<ionel at psy.uva.nl> writes
I recently converted a Matlab econometric model to python+NumPy. A
minimal C extension provided a speedup which made the whole thing
strictly comparable in speed to Matlab. There was a third party compiled
version which was much slower than python (I believe because it caused
the system to thrash).

The python version provides a deliverable excel addon without any
license and for good measure is used in a Zope installation. There were
very few nits in the Numeric code vs Matlab.

I would not consider Mathematica for serious numerical work it was too
slow last time I tried and absoultely horrible to extend in C.
-- 
Robin Becker