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by igouy 1613 days ago
> If Python is allowed to call fast C code (PCRE) for regex-redux, I don't see why Python shouldn't be allowed to call fast Fortran BLAS/etc for n-body…

The regex and arbitrary precision number libraries were allowed for regex-redux and pidigits because some language implementations wrapped those libraries rather than implement their own thing.