On 1/3/2012 12:13 PM, Sean Wolfe wrote:
if we are coding in python but looking for more performance,
Are you in fact in this situation? Despite years of folks mentioning how Python is 'slower than C++', I've seen a project where a developer churned out a feature using Python's generators that performed much faster than the C++ implementation it replaced. It wasn't because the C++ was slower by nature; it's because it was harder to express the optimal algorithm in C++ so the C++ developer chose a sub-optimal approach in the interest of meeting a deadline.
There's always a tradeoff. Making a language less expressive (constraining ourselves) in favor of runtime performance is not always the right tradeoff.
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