km wrote: > 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)
Python 1.5.2 was released in april 1999. Current Python version is 2.4.1. Please consider upgrading - unless of course you just want to troll... > for x in xrange(1000): > print x This is not an empty loop. An empty loop is for x in xrange(1000): pass > Is python runtime slow at all aspects when compared to perl ? Is your question serious or are you just trolling ? > I really wonder what makes python slower than perl ? I really wonder what makes my old P133/32mo running w98 slower that my more recent XP1200/256mo running gentoo/linux. > Is there any proposal to make python faster in future versions ? The future is already here.... -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list