Terry Reedy wrote: > I can imagine a day when code compiled from Python is routinely > time-competitive with hand-written C.
In my very limited experience it was very informative programming in C for PIC microcontrollers and inspecting the assembly code produced. If I just threw together loops and complex if statements the assembly produced was very long and impossible to follow whereas if I though carefully about what I was doing, tried to parallel what I would have done in assembly I found the assembly produced looked a lot like I imagined it would if I were programming in assembler directly. Except that the whole process was 10x faster and actually worked. Pete -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
