Speed?

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    [ on creating benchmarks ]

    Peter> And with Python, of course, it's almost trivial to do this kind
    Peter> of thing, compared to some other languages.  Sigh.

Which was just another data point in your decision, right?  After all, if
Python is so much easier to write your benchmarks in than some/most/all of
the alternatives, that has to factor into the choice of implementation
language.

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