improving python performance by extension module (64bit)

[geremy condra]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Nobody <nobody at nowhere.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:08:27 -0400, geremy condra wrote:
>
>> I have written Haskell that runs faster than C, and Forth that runs
>> faster than C,
>
> Faster than *what* C, though?

Well, than the C it was replacing, which is admittedly not much
of a claim. Having said that, it's a claim I can't make about
Python, which was why I brought it up in the first place.

> With Haskell, there's seldom a significant performance hit for using
> -fvia-C, so you would probably have been able to get comparable
> performance using C.

Probably eventually, but not without some fairly substantial work
on a section of code that was already pretty fast.

Geremy Condra