python speed

[Fredrik Lundh]

casevh at comcast.net wrote:

> DecInt's division algorithm is completely general also. But I would
> never claim that Python code is faster than assembler. I believe that
> careful implementation of a good algorithm is more important than the
> raw speed of the language or efficiency of the compiler. Python makes
> it easy to implement algorithms.

that was of course the point here (and your work with DecInt is an
excellent illustration of this principle).

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