From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Op Sat, 19 Jun 2004 01:53:04 -0700 schreef Asa Rossoff: > > >Which of the scripted languages run fastest, and which use ram most > >efficiently? > >The languages I know (just) a bit about are Perl, Python, and Tcl. > > I don't know Perl or Tcl. I always try to get things going in Bash shell > scripts, and if that does not work I use Python. Python is screamingly > fast (did you know that Walt Disney studios switched to Python for > generating their cartoon movies because of the speed?). > > I once wrote a Python program that interacts with a MySQL database and > uses TKInter/Tcl as a graphical interface to users, and that is very > fast. I never looked at memory efficiency, but so far I have not found > any drawbacks. > > At my work we are now using Python to run equipment interfaces in a > semiconductor factory for some mission critical operations. I think that > accounts for something.
This is helpful, thanks. My reason for being concerned about both speed and memory are that currently my hardware is on the ancient side (P200 56MB ram), and secondly, I know those issues are both of great consequence in larger scale operations, like on web servers and heavy data analysis. Asa
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