Speed with Python

William Park parkw at better.net
Wed Jun 21 17:52:58 EDT 2000


On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 11:07:25AM -0600, Jeff Massung wrote:
> Many threads with this kind of name have popped up, comparing the speed of
> Python to C, Java, etc. and trying to determine how fast some of the
> algorithms in Python are.
> 
> My question however, is how many of you who are Python gurus/junkies (no
> offence, I myself am a C and Forth junkie) :) use Python for speed intensive
> processing (not graphics, but databases and such)? Does efficiency of
> developement outweight the eventual speed of use?

Yes.  I'm not going to spend 5 months trying to make programs run 5
seconds faster.

--William




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