On 12 Jan, 04:03, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > > Given the way that people seem to use "interpreted" as a pejorative and a > synonym for "slow", I don't doubt it one bit. Especially in management, > where they might be making technical judgments on the basis of half- > remembered Comp Sci 101 lessons from fifteen years earlier and vague > buzzword-laden articles in trade magazines.
Indeed. Still, there's reason to be upbeat about Python's potential here. The big question is this: what is everyone with any degree of concern about Python's performance doing to improve the situation? Sure, C (or actually C++) seems to win the shootout [1], but there are plenty of language implementations between g++ and CPython to suggest that the old choice of extension modules written in C vs. other code written in Python doesn't provide a complete map of the opportunities. Paul [1] http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list