here is a benchmark involving computing streaming digits of pi. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=pidigits&lang=all http://shootout.alio

here is a benchmark involving computing streaming digits of pi. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=pidigits&lang=all http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=pid... the lesson i take from the results is if all you're doing is calling a C library (gmp) anyway, it doesn't really matter whether you're using C or Python.