Performance of Python builtins

[miller.paul.w at gmail.com]

On May 25, 7:35 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> miller.pau... at gmail.com writes:

Thanks for your reply.  I guess I'll have to go source diving to truly
answer the question.

> "You can fix your Python program's performance problems by rewriting
> it in C" is not that convincing an answer to a concern that Python is
> slow ;-).

Wasn't meant to be.  But, it is a credit to Guido that, beyond the
pain inherent in coding in C, there's relatively little pain involved
in writing an extension module.