Real-world Python code 700 times slower than C

[Skip Montanaro]

    Cliff> "In fact, while the x86 wont kill your program for misaligned
    Cliff> data, accessing that data will slow your program down...."

That's almost certainly not the problem here.  I'm pretty certain that all
malloc packages available to Python have been trained in the art of data
alignment.

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