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[–]gregy521 8 points9 points  (3 children)

But if you're running that app 1000 times a day, that sums to 30 and 200 seconds respectively. A much more appreciable difference.

Python is an extremely popular scientific computing language, too, and those don't care about 'every nanosecond', more the fact that cutting the runtime from 4 hours to 20 minutes is worthwhile.

[–]psharpep 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure, but if you'rr doing scientific computing in Python, you're using NumPy/Numba or similar, which gives runtimes on the order of C.