[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Re: Python vs Perl: benchmarking for speed?

[Dave Forrest]

     > From owner-matrix-sig@python.org Tue Dec  5 07:35 CST 1995
[snip]
     > 
     > Hinsen Konrad (hinsenk@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CAwrites:
     > > It seems to me that the argument you replied to was a purely
     > > hypothetical one, to illustrate the usefulness of tabulated
     > > benchmarks. Noone suggests that Perl takes ten times more time
     > > for a given problem than Python. In fact, I would be very much
     > > surprised if the difference between Perl and Python would ever
     > > reach a factor of ten in any direction for any problem.
     > 
     > What an invitation.  How about doing that benchmark comparison of
     > Python matrix math vs. Perl matrix math that the world has been
     > waiting for.  I can't wait to see the results:-)

IMHO, this "dialogue" is not relevant to the Matrix discussion.  Please
take it elsewhere.

David Forrest

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