I've got a sub-100MHz Linux machine on which I am running some Python applications. Python's great, but at 100MHz it feels like Java at 1.0GHz. It takes about 1 second just to start up the interpreter, and about another half second to read the system uptime, read a bit from a localhost socket, and print out some HTML. I would rather this took 0 seconds. I've tried compiling my script into byte code with py_compile and -O, but it only saved me about 0.1 seconds. I'm using Python version 2.4 on a 2.4.26 kernel on a PowerPC if you must know. Any ideas to speed up the snake? I think the Python code is good because my 2.4GHz machine runs it without any observable delay.
Thanks in advance! --Dave P.S. If this sounds like fun work to you, send me your resume. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
