Python performance notes...

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <JrkX4.91772$R4.528223 at news1.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
Brett g Porter <BgPorter at NOacmSPAM.org> wrote:
>
>I took Aahz' original point to be that since the Python version could
>be written significantly faster than a C version, there was a class of
>problems where that metric alone makes Python the clear winner. I was
>more interested in the speed of development issue, which for this one
>case, choosing C++ allowed me to write the solution as quickly as I
>might have in Python, without sacrificing execution speed.

My point included that, but my main point was slightly subtler: Python
has many built-in features that usually more than compensate for any
slowness in the language itself, making the issue of slowness in for
loops mostly irrelevent.
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