Hi m
Speed is a contentious issue here. Point is, if you really need raw speed, why stop only at Perl and Python? There are plenty of statically compiled languages that will produce native binaries.
The relative difference in speed between Perl and Python, whatever it is, is completely washed out by the enormous jump using, say, C for example [please, everyone else, I am aware of all the mitigating circumstances regarding, e.g. parts of the standard library written in C, etc. That is not my point.]
A Good Reason for thinking along these lines (Perl/Python) is more something like speed and reliability of development. Another one is maintaintability. I must confess that I know pretty much nothing about Perl, so I can't comment about that. My opinion about Python is that it is very, very good for these things.
The problem domains in which I do most of my work (chemical process modelling and simulation) really do require speed. That's why I mostly use Delphi (i.e. reasonably fast code) at work. I believe I know when speed is and is not an issue, and (by far) most of the time, my experience is that it is *not*. So I use Delphi for numerical code and python for everything else.
You really will have to convince people here that execution speed is a real issue for your programming task (in order to continue this discussion). Otherwise the debate will go south real quick.
Keep well Caleb
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 12:17:05 -0600, m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Courageous wrote:
If Python is better than Perl, I'm curious how really significant those advantages are ?
speedwise, i think perl is faster than python and python performed the slowest as shown in http://www.flat222.org/mac/bench/
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