David Palao <dpalao.pyt...@gmail.com> writes:
> Why to use C++ instead of python?
Likely, you would not use Python to implement most parts of an
operating system (where, for efficiency reasons, some parts
are even implemented in an assembler language).
I can imagine that the GNU compiler developers, too, had good
reasons to implement them in C rather than a scripting language.
It makes a huge difference whether you wait one or several hours
before a large system is built.
"firefox", too, seems to be implemented in C/C++. There, too, I
see good reasons:
* it is nice when your pages are rendered quickly
* "firefox" depends on lots of external libraries, all of them
with C/C++ interfaces; while is is possible to create
Python bindings for them, this is quite some work
* as it is, "firefox" is a huge "memory eater"; one might
fear that things would be worse if implemented in a
higher level language (with everything on the heap).
Though, the fear might not be justified.
All these examples are really large projects. I like Python a lot
for smaller projects.
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
