"You want performance in Python? Okay. Where do you want performance? If there isn't already a library there to help you, I'd be very surprised." I assume you

"You want performance in Python? Okay. Where do you want performance? If there isn't already a library there to help you, I'd be very surprised." I assume you haven't read the article, but give it a try. The author explains where they wanted performance and that there was no library, so they had to write some ugly code instead.