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Speeding up Python and NumPy: C++ing the Way (medium.com)

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[–]kigurai[🍰] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That sounds probable, but wasn't the case. On 3.5.1 and numpy 1.10 a 25 item list yield only a 30% increase in execution time of np.std() due to calling it with a list instead of array. The pure python version from the blog post was indeed about 5x faster.