[IronPython] is the performance gap between C and CPython a decent comparision between the performance gap between C# and IronPython?

[Vernon Cole]

Pablo:
  It depends mostly on how you define "performance" and how important that
is in any given case.  My brother relates the story of a fellow in a lunch
room who was complaining loudly that car manufactures could turn out more
powerful engines if they wanted to.  Brother's friend, a professional
builder of racing engines, replied: "That's right.  I could take the V-8 out
of your station wagon and make it produce 2000 horsepower.  Just remember
that the life expectancy of that engine is 20 miles."
  Most of us are only trying to get from home to the grocery market. We
don't need a 2000 horsepower program, and the lower cost of developing in
Python is well worth any slight difference in perceived responsiveness.  In
a graphical environment, the user probably will not notice any difference in
speed whatsoever.
  If there is a bottleneck in a system, that module can be re-implemented in
C.  One can always write a program that will outperform a product doing some
single defined task.
--
Vernon Cole

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Pablo Dalmazzo <pablodalma93 at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Hi there,
>
> I was replied in one of my topics in StackOverflow that the gap performance
> between C with cPython  is comparable with the performance gap between with
> C# with IronPython by some guy I dont know who he is. It could be a newbie,
> it could not. Now since the base language/platform are very differents my
> guess is his comparision is way off, but since I hadnt have time to take a
> look to the IronPython sourcecode at all, even if I want to do it soon, I
> have no idea if what he says has any sense or not. Now it's a known fact the
> gap between C and (c)Python is huge, is that a decent comparision of the
> level of performance difference between C# and IronPython? I think if it's
> not, someone should reply him with some technical(s) details why not, I was
> asked if that was true by a programmer friend and she didnt got much
> confidence in IronPython by reading that
>
> Greetings, Pablo
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