Ivan Wang a écrit :
> On Sep 2, 9:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>Thanks for that. I realise that improving the algorithm will speed
>>things up. I wanted to know why my less than perfect algorithm was so
>>much slower in python than exactly the same algorithm in C. Even when
>>turning off gcc's optimiser with the -O0 flag, the C version is still
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> Maybe Python is the slowest programming language in the world.
> So there is a joke: some python hater said that "python" can only
> crawl rather than run. :)
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> Python is slow because:
> (1) dynamic binding
Yes.
> (2) it is a interpretation language
Not quite. It's compiled to byte-code - just like Java (would you call
Java an 'interpreted language' ?)
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