> the questions they're designed to answer You'd think there'd be some kind of statement about that? http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/help.php#why http://sho

> the questions they're designed to answer You'd think there'd be some kind of statement about that? http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/help.php#why http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/help.php#why > the questions people use them to answer You'd think there'd be some kind of advice about that? http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclusions.php http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclusions.p... > I typically want to know "how much slower would my program be in Python?" And we should all know the answer - It depends on how you wrote your program in C and it depends on how you write your program in Python.