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3 Post author: polymathwannabe 23 December 2014 11:27PM

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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 24 December 2014 10:59:24AM 5 points [-]

Basic Python is very slow, but numerical computing libraries such as Numpy are almost as fast as C, and Cython can compile Python into C if you add in type declarations. (more reasons why Python is awsome!)

I would imagine that you might use numerical computing libraries for neural simulations, so their program might have been running at close to C speeds.