Hello Pablo,
Python is an expressive and highly dynamic language. As such it is
typically possible to achieve things in less lines of code and fewer
layers of architecture when writing idiomatic Python as compared to
idiomatic C#. With less code often comes better performance. This really
has been my experience and that of many people switching from statically
typed languages like C# and Java.
*However*, if you transliterate C# code (particularly algorithmic code
as used by most synthetic benchmarks) to the direct equivalent in
IronPython you *will* see C# running considerably faster.
The answer is three-fold:
* You don't write the same code in C# and Python
* With a less restrictive language and less verbose language you have
*more time* for performance optimisation - the bottlenecks in even
computationally expensive code is typically the *way* your algorithms
are implemented and *not* the language used
* With IronPython integrating with C# is almost absurdly easy - so
moving your performance sensitive code into C# after appropriate
profilling and prototyping in IronPython is not hard
Choosing a programming language based on its perceived performance
characteristics is a premature optimisation.
All the best,
Michael Foord
On 14/04/2010 13:52, Pablo Dalmazzo wrote:
Hi there,
I was replied in one of my topics in StackOverflow that the gap
performance between C with cPython is comparable with the performance
gap between with C# with IronPython by some guy I dont know who he is.
It could be a newbie, it could not. Now since the base
language/platform are very differents my guess is his comparision is
way off, but since I hadnt have time to take a look to the IronPython
sourcecode at all, even if I want to do it soon, I have no idea if
what he says has any sense or not. Now it's a known fact the gap
between C and (c)Python is huge, is that a decent comparision of the
level of performance difference between C# and IronPython? I think if
it's not, someone should reply him with some technical(s) details why
not, I was asked if that was true by a programmer friend and she didnt
got much confidence in IronPython by reading that
Greetings, Pablo
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