On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 17:02, Michael Beattie wrote:
> FWIW, the python regex engine is slow.
Python is slow, much slower than Java (excluding Java's start-up time).
Saving graces:
o If something takes over 30 seconds then you can take
10 minutes and it will not affect the user because
they would have already gone and started something
else. That is, they will not be waiting for the task
to finish.
o If you are writing code for a GUI then most of the
time will be waiting for the user to click on a
button.
o Moores law :)
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Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
