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On 15/03/2016 02:01, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 10:19 am, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> There is no need to optimise python, it is fast enough.

I should of course have said on the end " for (say) 99% of purposes".

>
> Somebody should tell the core developers like Brett Cannon and Victor
> Stinner that they are wasting their time working on Python optimizers.
>
> Since Python is fast enough, obviously anyone who thinks differently is
> obviously mistaken, and we should just shut down all those projects like
> Cython, Theano, Numba, Copperhead, Parakeet, Pyjion and Pyston. Clearly
> their developers are just wasting their time.
>

No, they are merely joining up with Pinky and the Brain in taking over 
the world.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence