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by jankiel 3839 days ago
"Making it fast" wad not a goal of that benchmark. The whole point of it is measuring core features of the language - looping, recursion and so on. That's why they have this horrible Fibonacci impelentation: to meadure how language hanfles recursion.

Author misunderstands this. If you say that you're optimizing python by calling C, then something's wrong here.