Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes: > I can imagine a day when code compiled from Python is routinely > time-competitive with hand-written C.
Have a look at http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/downloads/detail?name=Unladen_Swallow_PyCon.pdf&can=2&q= Slide 6 is impressive. The bottom of slide/page 22 explains why python is so slow: in most cases "the program is less dynamic than the language". -- Alain. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list