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There's definitely some clever coding afoot when a pure-python library can outpace a C wrapper library.

• adamtj 18y ago
  Well written python basically is a C wrapper.
  • teej 18y ago
    So is Ruby - that doesn't make it fast.
• timf 18y ago
  It does not look like it is outpacing them at all. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478654 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478654 )