[Python-Dev] FAT Python (lack of) performance

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Jan 26 08:38:13 EST 2016


On 1/26/2016 12:02 AM, INADA Naoki wrote:

> People use same algorithm on every language when compares base language
> performance [1].

The python code is NOT using the same algorithm.  The proof is that the 
Python function will return the correct value for, say fib(50) while 
most if not all the other versions will not.  The domain of an algorithm 
is part of what characterizes an algorithm.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy



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