Matt Chaput added the comment: The Porter stemming and Levenshtein edit-distance algorithms are not "fast-moving" nor are they fusion reactors... they've been around forever, and are simple to implement, but are still useful in various common scenarios. I'd say this is similar to Python including an implementation of digest functions such as SHA: it's useful enough, and compute-intensive enough, to warrant a C implementation. Shipping C extensions is not an option for everyone; it's especially a pain with Windows.
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