In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Irmen de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Paul Rubin wrote: >> rtk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> FYI.. I wanted a simple version of Python to run on an ancient DEC >>> Alpha box. I got VMS Python 2.5 up and running but it is too slow to >>> use. It takes *minutes* to get the interpreter prompt after typing >>> 'python'! >> >> Something is wrong. Maybe it's trying to DNS itself and timing out, >> or something like that. > >Something is definately wrong. > >Back in the days my port of Python to the Commodore Amiga machine ran >quite comfortably on a 50 mhz CPU with 4 Mb of RAM. (ok ok it was >Python 1.5.2, that has to be said). >Python started in about 5 seconds on that Amiga if I remember >correctly. I'm quite sure your 'ancient' DEC Alpha box is way more >powerful than my Amiga back then. > >--Irmen
Me, too. I'm all for Lua--I began promoting it over ten years ago. However, I was also working on Alphas at about that time, as well as VMS, and of course with Python. While I don't recall that I ever had occasion to test Python under VMS for Alpha much, I've used every other combination quite a bit. Something's fishy about this report of a minute-long launch-time. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
