[ Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
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| One thing that bugs me: the article says 3 or 4 times that Python is
| slow, each time with a refutation ("but it's so flexible", "but it's
| fast enough") but still, they sure seem to harp on the point.
That reminds me of this joke:
"""Couple of guys find themselves being chased by a lion. The first one
starts to strecth out preparing to run, the second one finds that ridicule.
- No way you'll run faster than that lion. While, the other replies:
- I don't need to run faster than the lion, I just need to run faster than you.
"""
I love to see Python getting faster and faster. Eventually (if...when PyPy
succedes)
faster-than-C ! But after over 4 years of making-ends-meet with Python, our
Brazilian
customers never complained of our Python solutions being slow. Perhaps because
they were glad enough with projects delivered 5 to 10 times faster than usual.
But, but to the joke: I believe Python must strive to run at least as fast as
the crowd --
Java, Perl, Ruby, Lua, Boo, etc
Maybe we could visit the language shootout sites, translate Python snipets to
modern 2.4
idioms and rerun the test suites:
http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ # classic
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ # modern
My 2 cents.
best regards,
Senra
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