This shouldn't really come as a surprise. From the Cython documentation,
"This is about 20 times slower, but still about 10 times faster than
the original Python-only integration code. This shows how large the
speed-ups can easily be when whole loops are moved from Python code
into a Cython modul
Sometimes one ends up with implementing really small access routines,
just to do a lookup for something. In cython you might even want to do
that with some "cdef" methods. For general accessibility, you might
consider slapping a "cpdef" on rather than a "cdef". That may come at
a serious price, bec
