On Aug 8, 9:08 am, alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 8, 2:49 pm, Dhananjay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is it that a question of time and effort, > > or is there something that doesn't make it appropriate to python ? > > I don't think I've ever seen anyone who has raised concerns about the > speed of python actually offer to contribute to resolving it, so I'm > guessing it's the former.
Contribute to resolve it? Part of me just wants to say that to "speed" up python would be such a huge undertaking, the outcome would alter the language beyond what people liked. Another part thinks, why speed it up, it is pretty fast presently, and I've rarely seen real-world applications that need that 80/20 rule applied heavily. Benchmarks for showing what languages are good at is fine, but in general most conform to a standard range of speed. I cannot find the article but there was a good piece about how it takes most programmers the same time to program in any language. Reading through the code is another matter, I think Python is faster than most in that respect. I'd look to increase the worst-case scenario's of Python before trying to speed up everything. Hell the tim_sort is pretty damn fast. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
