"Stefan Behnel" <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote
He doesn't have to write it, as it is very obvious, that no Python code on earth (even written by Guido himself ;-)) stands a chance compared to
Fortran or C. Look at this:

There is one big proviso. The C or Fortran needs to be well written

It's seriously hard to write computational Python code that is faster than C code, though.

Agreed, it was the assertion that "no Python code on earth...stands
a chance..." that I was objecting to.

There are many areas where the C code would have to be pathologically
bad to be beaten by Python, but there are plenty of places where only
slightly inefficient C code can be competitive relatie to Python.

Alan G.

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