> What is the purpose of pythonspeed.com? What is insufficient about the contents of the "About" page? It looks (and reads) like a technical essay meant as pr

> What is the purpose of pythonspeed.com? What is insufficient about the contents of the "About" page? It looks (and reads) like a technical essay meant as promotion for the author's training services and books. Which is also the point of the ad. > "Everyone knows the content presented here" At some point you did not know this, right? Some people want to figure this out for themselves, as you likely did. Others prefer knowledge transfer, eg, through courses like what the author provides. > Without C extensions The author isn't saying to not use extensions. The last part is "If you do need to write an extension". > Without C extensions, Python would not have taken off Without C extensions, Python would not have existed. The original need was a better language for working with Amoeba, and "amoeba" was an optional built-in module in the first public release.