[orf]

I'm not a "smart alec" for pointing out that Python is, was and will be bad at heavily numerical, number crunching code. It's not what Python is built for.

I mean... it takes 28 bytes to store a single integer in Python.

> > sys.getsizeof(1)

> 28

[mattip]

On PyPy, it can be many different sizes, including being completely optmized out. That is why PyPy has no sys.getsizeof

[ndc33]

this is silly, python is used by some of the biggest number crunchers on earth ... as glue code. If you dont like the dual language paradigm and want fast code go learn fortran.

[orf]

Glue code being the important word in that comment.