On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:28:19 -0800, alex23 wrote: > On Feb 27, 11:57 pm, n00m <n...@narod.ru> wrote: >> http://www.spoj.pl/ > > There's your problem. I'd say most Python 3.x adopters are using it for > something other than working out whose performance dick is the longest.
In fairness, the Python Dev team is very aware of the risk of performance degradation. Performance is important, but it is not *so important* that it outweighs everything else. The question that needs to be asked is not "Is Python 3 fast?", but instead "Is Python 3 fast enough?". -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list