Ian Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are there any plans to improve Python's speed to
> at least the level of C languages?
This isn't really the best forum for asking such a question. I would recommend
asking on the general Python mailing list / newsgroup ("comp.lang.python" on
http://www.python.org/community/lists/).
I think I speak for all Python developers when I say that we'd love for the
language to run faster. And of course the large body of core CPython developers
are aware of this. I've personally attended a sprint in Iceland during which we
spent a week solely focused on speeding up the CPython interpreter.
There's just not much that can be done with the current CPython implementation
to make it faster.
Thus it falls to you as a developer to choose your implementation strategy
wisely:
1. pick sensible libraries that handle large amounts of processing for you
(whether that be numeric or graphic)
2. where there is no existing library, you may need to code speed-critical
parts of your application using C, or the more programmer-friendly Pyrex (er,
Cython these days I believe :)
Richard
