Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com> writes: >>> So, the question is, can the same thing be done for Python apps? >>> >> >> I love Python and all, but it'd be apt to ask, what's the point? >> >> The iPhone is running on what? A 400Mhz ARM processor? Resources on the >> device are already limited; running your program on top of an embedded >> Python interpreter would only be adding pressure to the constraints; >> even if it was an optimized interpreter. >> > I don't know iPhone, > but I've done some experiments with 400 MHz arm, running Windows Mobile, > and found PocketPyGUI running very very well on these devices. > > cheers, > Stef Mientki
Sure, but it's pretty relative in the sense that it might be fast enough if I'm sitting around but too slow if I want to enter some information in the app before the next train comes. As a programmer, I don't really see the benefit of using an embedded interpreter on the iPhone. Objective-C isn't the greatest language, but it's easy to learn and well supported. It also compiles into some pretty speedy executables. If you can sacrifice a little run-time speed for your users in exchange for ease of development on your part, all the more to you. My original point was that I don't see the benefit in that decision. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
