Python IS slow ! [was] Re: Python too slow for real world

[Markus Kohler]

The numbers for tak(18, 12, 6) see my previous post. 

Python-1.5.2c1 compiled with HP compiler "cc -O"
0.52 seconds

Squeak (www.squeak.org) 2.4 running with a 2.3 virtual machine compiled with gcc (egcs 1.02) -O 
0.13 seconds. this is compiled with gcc since it uses some gcc extensions that speed up the the 
case statement for the byte code dispatching. Even the HP compiler produces much better code 
than gcc, in this case the gcc compiled squeak is usally faster.  

Of course the comparsion is not really fair because squeak might
or might not run a the garbage collector during the test (probably not). 

But I doubt that this would explain a factor of 4. 

Markus
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