Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote: > There are benchmarks testing the *real performance* of Python. > > For example: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5602
Just the observation that there are 166 comments to that article would suggest that the methodology employed was somewhat debatable. (I don't need to read them all - it is OSNews, after all.) As for the "real performance" of Python, what do we learn from these benchmarks which "...didn't test string manipulation, graphics, object creation and management (for object oriented languages), complex data structures, network access, database access, or any of the countless other things that go on in any non-trivial program"? That Python doesn't perform well executing loops involving mathematical operations? Or something about "research and development" in the big consulting houses? Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list