Often you can put a "@numba.jit" decorator at the top of a calc-heavy function, and reclaim a good portion of C's performance. It is so simple it is definitely

Often you can put a "@numba.jit" decorator at the top of a calc-heavy function, and reclaim a good portion of C's performance. It is so simple it is definitely worth trying. I did it for Bloom tree implementation, and got to within around 3x of the C code it replaced.