-[ Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:32:42PM -0600, Laura Vance ]----
> The thing that I think is a complete absurdity is the fact that so much 
> of the software for the FR is written in an interpreted language 
> (Python).  This alone contributes to the slowness of the device.

Not only to the slowness, but to the power inefficiency also : if a script is,
say, 15 times slower than the equivalent C app, it will also draw 15 times more
current from the CPU.


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