On Jan 9, 2:21 pm, "Chris Rebert" <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Vicent <vgi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello. This is my first message to the list. > > > In this article written in 2002 > > >http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-psyco.html > > > they talk about Psyco as a module that makes it possible to accelerate > > Python. > > > Is it still a state-of-the-art module? > > > I found it here also:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/psyco/1.6 > > > Do you think it's useful, or it depends...? > > Its present homepage ishttp://psyco.sourceforge.net/, and yes, it is > still useful and fairly current. > However, it should be used judiciously; only bother with it if you're > having a performance problem and would otherwise be tempted to rewrite > the algorithm in C. Don't casually use it as an all-purpose > accelerator, as that's not what it was built for. > > Cheers, > Chris > > -- > Follow the path of the Iguana...http://rebertia.com
If that's the case where's the point of diminishing returns on using psyco? Why would it not be useful in a general setting? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
