Re: python simply not scaleable enough for google?

2009-11-12 Thread mcherm
On Nov 11, 7:38 pm, Vincent Manis wrote: > 1. The statement `Python is slow' doesn't make any sense to me. > Python is a programming language; it is implementations that have > speed or lack thereof. [...] > 2. A skilled programmer could build an implementation that compiled > Python code into

Re: python simply not scaleable enough for google?

2009-11-12 Thread samwyse
On Nov 11, 3:57 am, "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > http://groups.google.com/group/unladen-swallow/browse_thread/thread/4... > >   thoughts? Google's already given us its thoughts: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/0210212/Go-Googles-New-Open-Source-Programming-Language -- http://mail.py

Re: python simply not scaleable enough for google?

2009-11-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:38:50 -0800, Vincent Manis wrote: > I'm having some trouble understanding this thread. My comments aren't > directed at Terry's or Alain's comments, but at the thread overall. > > 1. The statement `Python is slow' doesn't make any sense to me. Python > is a programming lang

Re: python simply not scaleable enough for google?

2009-11-11 Thread Vincent Manis
On 2009-11-11, at 14:31, Alain Ketterlin wrote: > Terry Reedy writes: > >> I can imagine a day when code compiled from Python is routinely >> time-competitive with hand-written C. > > Have a look at > http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/downloads/detail?name=Unladen_Swallow_PyCon.pdf&can=2&

Re: python simply not scaleable enough for google?

2009-11-11 Thread Peter Chant
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

Re: python simply not scaleable enough for google?

2009-11-11 Thread Alain Ketterlin
Terry Reedy writes: > I can imagine a day when code compiled from Python is routinely > time-competitive with hand-written C. Have a look at http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/downloads/detail?name=Unladen_Swallow_PyCon.pdf&can=2&q= Slide 6 is impressive. The bottom of slide/page 22 expla

Re: python simply not scaleable enough for google?

2009-11-11 Thread Terry Reedy
Robert P. J. Day wrote: http://groups.google.com/group/unladen-swallow/browse_thread/thread/4edbc406f544643e?pli=1 thoughts? Program_cost = human_writing&maintance_cost + running_cost*number_of_runs Nothing new here. The builtin types and many modules are written in C to reduce running cos

python simply not scaleable enough for google?

2009-11-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
http://groups.google.com/group/unladen-swallow/browse_thread/thread/4edbc406f544643e?pli=1 thoughts? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Trainin

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