Op Thursday 30 Apr 2015 11:10 CEST schreef Ben Finney: >> I like it that the code is concise and clear. But also that the >> performance is not bad. > > The former is a property of Python, which is a programming language. > I agree with your assessment :-) > > The latter is not a property of Python; a programming language > doesn't have runtime performance. Rather, runtime performance is a > property of some specific *implementation* — that is, the runtime > Python machine. > > There are numerous Python runtimes, and they have different > performance characteristics on different hardware and operating > systems. > > <URL:https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonImplementations> > > You might be talking about performance on CPython. But you might > not! I don't know.
I understood when you did not explicitly mention it, it normally is CPython. And in my case it is. I should try it also in Jython, because Clojure runs in de JVM. > Have you looked at PyPy – Python implemented in Python – and > compared its performance? Not yet. Busy hacking away. :-D -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list