How Fast Numpy Really is and Why?

A comparison with standard Python Lists.

Shiva Verma
Towards Data Science
4 min readDec 16, 2019

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Originally Python was not designed for numeric computation. As people started using python for various tasks, the need for fast numeric computation arose. And the Numpy was created by a group of people in 2005 to address this challenge.

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