Performance
Both binaries and source code are available for Sage from the download page. If Sage is built from source code, many of the included libraries such as ATLAS, FLINT, and NTL will be tuned and optimized for that computer, taking into account the number of processors, the size of their caches, whether there is hardware support for SSE instructions, etc.
Cython can increase the speed of Sage programs, as the Python code is converted into C.
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