Ian Mallett wrote:
I see the difficulty in speeding it up, but it seems like it can't be that incredibly hard, and I expect that already there are modifications that could be done to Python that simply haven't been.
There are an extremely large number of modifications that could be made to Python. Only a very small number of them will result in any improvement, and of those, all the easy-to-find ones have already been found. If you want to refute that, you're going to have to come up with an actual, specific proposal, preferably in the form of a code patch together with a benchmark that demonstrates the improvement. If you can't do that, you're not really in a position to make statements like "it can't be that hard". If wishing could make it so, Python would already be blazingly fast! -- Greg
