Python Performance

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Markus Stenberg wrote:
> ...
> Thus I've had great deal of interest in getting the speed up; however,
> speeding up dynamic interpreted languages is nontrivial, especially
> languages as dynamic as Python.

There are various ways to enhance Python's performance. Here
are some links:

	http://www.automatrix.com/~skip/python/
	http://lima.mudlib.org/~rassilon/p2c/

The most trivial trick is to eliminate global lookups by "localizing"
them. Others include turning to C functions (see mxTools on my
Python Pages) or using specialized Python extensions (calls
to builtin functions are noticeably faster than Python function
calls).

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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