In article <0022052b$0$2930$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: >On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:37:46 -0700, qwe rty wrote: > >> i know that an interpreted language like python > >Languages are neither interpreted nor compiled. *Implementations* are >interpreted or compiled.
<SNIP> Thanks for an excellent overview. There is this one point I don't understand: >Existing Python implementations don't give you direct access to hardware, >and bit-manipulation has a lot of overhead in Python. Numerical Surely you don't mean that 0x17 & 0xAD has more overhead than 17 + 123 So what do you mean here? <SNIP> > >-- >Steven Groetjes Albert -- -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters. alb...@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list