On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:23 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> wrote: > On 04 Jul 2010 04:15:57 GMT > Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: >> "Need" is a bit strong. There are plenty of applications where if your >> code takes 0.1 millisecond to run instead of 0.001, you won't even >> notice. Or applications that are limited by the speed of I/O rather than >> the CPU. > > Which is 99% of the real-world applications if you factor out the code > already written in C or other compiled languages.
This may be true, but there are areas where the percentage is much lower. Not everybody uses python for web development. You can be a python fan, be reasonably competent in the language, and have good reasons to wish for python to be one order of magnitude faster. I find LUA quite interesting: instead of providing a language simple to develop in, it focuses heavily on implementation simplicity. Maybe that's the reason why it could be done at all by a single person. David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
