Hi all, Why is it that the implementation of empty loop so slow in python when compared to perl ?
#i did this in python (v 1.5) for x in xrange(1000): print x # this took 0.017 seconds -------------------------- #similar code in perl (v 5.6): for $x (0..1000) { print $x; } # this took 0.005 seconds only !!! Is python runtime slow at all aspects when compared to perl ? I really wonder what makes python slower than perl ? Is there any proposal to make python faster in future versions ? curious to know all these ... regards, KM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list