On 14 Nov, 02:42, Robert Brown <bbr...@speakeasy.net> wrote: > If you want to know why Python *the language* is slow, look at the Lisp code > CLPython generates and at the code implementing the run time. Simple > operations end up being very expensive.
You can also see this by looking at the C that Cython or Pyrex generates. You can also see the dramatic effect by a handful of strategically placed type declarations. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
