Yeah, the point is that by expressing the algorithm in Python, the JIT gets to go hog wild optimising tight loops like this one. Which is great: why do all tha

Yeah, the point is that by expressing the algorithm in Python, the JIT gets to go hog wild optimising tight loops like this one. Which is great: why do all that work writing some kind of custom sprintf generating function when you can just let the JIT do it for you on the fly?