Python is darn fast (was: How fast is Python)

[dan]

right, pyrex -- looked at that a while ago.  Compiled Python with
C-style type declarations, right?  Kinda like common lisp??? (I'm
stretching my memory cells now)

will review

jjl at pobox.com (John J. Lee) wrote in message news:<87wud05e50.fsf at pobox.com>...
> danbmil99 at yahoo.com (dan) writes:
> 
> > mis6 at pitt.edu (Michele Simionato) wrote in message 
> > news:<2259b0e2.0308240638.38350cba at posting.google.com>...
>  [...]
> > This is a far cry from the factor of 10-30 I've been seeing with pure
> > python.  For performance-critical code, this could be the difference
> > between hand-coding 5% versus 20% of your code.
> > 
> > Excellent news!!
> 
> If you care about this a lot, don't forget Pyrex.
> 
> 
> John