-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Paolo Pantaleo wrote: >> 2006/8/24, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> The 1st link in his email describes how when a python chess >>> player was (mechanically) converted to C++, the resulting app >>> ran 10x faster. > >> That's it, compiled languages are fastar than interperted ones. >> > > This is true. However in modern computing most programs are > sitting idle so scripted languages are not as ill-suited as they > once were. Furthermore, [snip] > a compiled language offers. IE, code the 90-95% of the idle > intensive stuff in Python, optimize the 5% intensive in C/C++. > > So, strictly speaking, Python is not ill-suited if one follows > the advice of Python's own advocates. :) Write the interface in > Python and have it call the engine written in C.
You need to re-read the OP: but it could be grat for chess interfaces, for drawing boards, and similar things. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE7lrdS9HxQb37XmcRAlXPAJ9ft9XBm3TaC/rNz8BhUZQZJqLLbwCfYeE3 pUGiPpuNA1IRK3ks3bPaAPM= =A7+y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]