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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: More Funny Stuff From Joel
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 03:51:10 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 02:40:08 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

> ... C is good for dealing with the raw data and it can be really
> satisfying to get everything working, and python is great for throwing
> something together.

Throwing something together to deal with raw data also works well in 
Python. Where C excels is in large amounts of low-level computation. This 
is the one area where Python on its own gets slow.

But then, you will likely find that, among the large number of toolkits 
written in C for Python, there is bound to be something (e.g. NumPy) that 
can be adapted to the particular low-level operations that you need to do.