Python Performance

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> I think one of the impediments to improving the speed of the language has
    >> been the dramatic performance improvement in hardware.  There's not a lot of
    >> incentive to pour lots of time into speeding up method calls when for a few
    >> hundred bucks you can simply drop in a faster processor, disk or networking
    >> card.

    Markus> Also it's true that hardware still improves, it's also true that
    Markus> if I would try sell an application to a customer with thousands
    Markus> of users and I would tell him to buy a new machine because I use
    Markus> a slow interpreter, they would probably kill me.  There are also
    Markus> applications where every second you save is worth a lot of many.
    Markus> Production testing of IC's comes to my mind ...

True.  I was thinking about the situation I'm in (small developer, a few
machines to maintain/upgrade/replace).

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