[Mailman-Developers] python is slow

[Barry Warsaw]

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 14:52, Bernhard Kuemel wrote:

> You name the reasons why I will not produce the 'convincing 
> evidence' Richard Barret is interested in. I do however believe 
> ESR is called authority rightly and assume he is has sufficient 
> knowledge of and communication with experts in the languages he 
> writes about so his opinion adds to my experience that python is 
> slow. Some complex things are hard to prove so I thought you 
> might be interested in the opinion of a neural network trained in 
> the subject.

Saying "Python is slow" is pretty much a value-less statement.  Slower
than what?  Slow when doing what?  Too slow?  Which version of Python?

Besides that, this thread is more appropriate on python-list at python.org
or some other advocacy list.  I firmly believe Python is both fast
enough and the right choice for Mailman, and that's not going to change.

-Barry