On 03 May 2011 00:21:45 GMT, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: : Python aims at acceptable performance (between 10 and 100 times slower : than C) and much easier development (between 10 and 100 times faster than : C *wink*). If that tradeoff doesn't suit you, perhaps Python is not the : language for you.
It isn't the trade-off per se which bothers me, but certain features which seem to make compilation harder without making development any easier. But then, it probably depeds on what kind of development you are doing. -- :-- Hans Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list