On 25 Nov 2003, at 20:06, Bernhard Kuemel wrote:Maybe. However, I don't like python as on our old P60 server it burned up so much CPU time (15 s/min).
It would be interesting to see you present convincing evidence that Python runs slower than Perl which you seem happy to rely on.
Eric Steven Raymond says in "The Art of Unix Programming" (http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/index.html) on http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch14s04.html :
"Python cannot compete with C or C++ on raw execution speed (though using a mixed-language strategy on today's fast processors probably makes that relatively unimportant). In fact it's generally thought to be the least efficient and slowest of the major scripting languages, a price it pays for runtime type polymorphism. Beware of rejecting Python on these grounds, however; most applications do not actually need better performance than Python offers, and even those that appear to are generally limited by external latencies such as network or disk waits that entirely swamp the effects of Python's interpretive overhead. Also, by way of compensation, Python is exceptionally easy to combine with C, so performance-critical Python modules can be readily translated into that language for substantial speed gains."
Bernhard
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