Python in game development?
Paul Prescod
paul at prescod.net
Thu Jul 20 10:33:26 EDT 2000
Martijn Faassen wrote:
>
> ...
>
> >From a game programming perspective, you can probably consider Python to
> be dirt-slow, though. The trade-off is a lot of power for speed, but
> that power can help you gain back speed because you can be a lot smarter.
Python is dirt-slow if you are going to write a whole game in it. But is
it really much slower than the embedded scripting languages these games
sometimes have?
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Paul Prescod - Not encumbered by corporate consensus
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having the foundations of his edifice shaken after the work is
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Mr. Bertrand Russell..."
- Frege, Appendix of Basic Laws of Arithmetic (of Russell's Paradox)
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