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[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:13:14PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, no C-level function takes an absurd amount of time. It's python
>> code that makes too much work than is really needed.
>
> It's not python code proper; it's calling any sort of code and
> performing any sort of I/O UNNECESSARILY. Think of algorithms and data
> structures -- there's plenty of python code which runs fast.

Just in case someone else thought I was attributing slowness to the
python language, I was meaning that the author of the high level code
(written in python in this case but could be assembly) instructed the
machine to do more work than was needed for this task.

Regards,

Tomeu