On 7/13/07, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can sometimes get better performance in C++ than in C, because C++ > has "inline". Inline expansion happens before optimization, so you > can have abstractions that cost nothing.
C99 has that too. > Python is a relatively easy language, easier than C++, Java, > or even Perl. It's quite forgiving. The main implementation, > CPython, is about 60x slower than C, though, so if you're trying > to implement, say, a rapidly changing digital oscilloscope display, > the result may be sluggish. But if the data for that oscilloscope comes from an external device connected via a serial port, execution speed won't matter. -- mvh Björn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
