Commit 54a5fb54 authored by Stefan Behnel's avatar Stefan Behnel

Find a better wording for "slow yellow lines" in the tutorial (yellow isn't *always* slow).

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.. figure:: htmlreport.png
If a line is white, it means that the code generated doesn't interact
with Python, so will run fast. The darker the yellow, the more Python
interaction there is. Those yellow lines will run slower.
with Python, so will run as fast as normal C code. The darker the yellow, the more
Python interaction there is in that line. Those yellow lines will usually operate
on Python objects, raise exceptions, or do other kinds of higher-level operations
than what can easily be translated into simple and fast C code.
The function declaration and return use the Python interpreter so it makes
sense for those lines to be yellow. Same for the list comprehension because
it involves the creation of a Python object. But the line ``if n % i == 0:``, why?
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