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If x and y are Numerical Python arrays, then the speed of the operation x + y is close to the speed of doing it in C if the arrays are big enough. Thus, Python can be extended with a full scientific array language with sophisticated indexing and shaping operations and yet be closer to the speed of a compiled language than to the speed of Python itself.
