On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 07:14:43PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > On 6/7/06, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Most parts of it will be, in all likelihood. > > OK, I ask for the usual performance related reasons. Python and > super-efficient aren't terms I see often together.
Its really a tradeoff - Python is a really very good language for rapid development - the 'Visual Basic' of OSS world - with the added benefit of being a serious programming language. Its 'fast enough' for the most part, and you have the option to re-code any problem areas in C (via Pyrex). Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- olpc-software mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/olpc-software
