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Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:

> Also numba, which is reminiscent of psyco, but with more features and
> Python 3 support.

For numerical computing with NumPy, Numba tends to give performance
comparable to -O2 in C. This is because it is very easy to do type
inference in most scientific array computing. Numba is still a bit
immature, though, compared to e.g. Cython. 

Sturla