On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:44:14PM +0100, Bernhard Kuemel wrote: > Eric Steven Raymond says in "The Art of Unix Programming" > > "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).
Uhh... duh? There isn't a scripting language out there that's faster than C (I mean, there are things that scripting languages can *make* faster, like preventing ppl from doing stupid sorts by only putting in well-optimized sort algo's but that's not what most ppl mean by "speed"). I can't believe ESR wrote that for python and not just for scripting languages in general. > 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. Really? I never thought that python was slower than, say, tcl prior to 8.x. I thought that the general concensus is that python and perl are about neck-and-neck for the fastest possible interpreter. But in short you're taking something written for popular consumption instead of writing a test case in a few languages and seeing how fast it runs. That's not helpful at all. -Peter -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use this one. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers