On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Dotan Cohen<dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Creating binaries is not the same as creating /fast, efficient/ binaries. >> Py2Exe bundles it all together, but does not make it any faster. >> > > How inefficient is py2exe.
It is neither efficient or inefficient: it is just a distribution tool, to deploy python software in a form familiar to most windows users. It does not make it any faster than running the software under a python prompt. As much as I like python for scientific programming, I would say python is pretty far from the stated requirements in the posted blog post. It is difficult to deploy software written with python (much better than the alternatives, though), and it is slow if you can't leverage numpy/scipy (where vectorization does not apply). It remains to be seen whether it will be true in practice, but something like F#, with its integration in VS 2010, seems much closer IMHO. It is compiled, high level language, and backed by the biggest software vendor in the world. David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list