On Mar 11, 2008, at 2:57 PM, David MacQuigg wrote: > I guess what I should conclude is that when performance is > important, don't bother trying to optimize Python. Go straight to > C, and get 10 or 100X improvement.
That hasn't always been my experience. I found that using psyco and numpy (along with careful profiling and optimization), I can often get essentially the same performance from pure Python that I can get from mixed Python/C solutions, and with much less trouble. --- Rob Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages San Diego State University _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig