On 06/07/2010 04:35 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 06/07/2010 12:57 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
Do this in any dynamic language -> FAIL because looping is so slow that you
might
die of old age before it executes. Besides, who wants to do computationally
intensive, multithreaded work in a dynamic language?
In python: max (map (max, args)) should have reasonable
performances and is *much* more elegant...
I very much doubt that.
What do you doubt? That it has reasonable performance or that it is
more elegant?
That it has reasonable performance. Then, there are a number of things
that can't be compared such as figuring out the tightest static types,
something that Python doesn't worry about (at the expense of precision
and performance).
I see such examples as simple illustrations "look, if you give up X, you
gain Y!" - just coming without mentioning X.
Andrei
