"mystilleef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Slow for users who aren't familiar with Psyco, Pyrex and C extensions, > sure.
Psyco is not included in the Python distro. Pyrex and C extensions depend on having C compilers available for every target platform. As a Linux user, if I want to release Python programs that Windows users will run, I cannot use C extensions because I have no way to compile them for Windows, and most Windows users don't have C compilers either. Anyway it's pretty lousy advocacy for a language to say "well if the language is too slow, don't use it, use another langauge like C instead". I think PyPy will make a big difference when it becomes part of regular Python but for now it's vaporware. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list