BASIC or Python?

[Chris Barker]

Mirko Liss wrote:

> Python is often very slow, though. Maybe you should try Perl.
> I used logfile analyzers in Perl and Python (radiusreport and
> radiuscontext) and the perl program was much faster.
> But it used up much memory. When working with large logfiles,
> memory quickly got exhausted. The other analyzer needed
> less memory. I think that's because Python often copies a
> reference and not the actual data. Not wanting to use the
> swap partition all the time, I switched to the python code.
> Maybe I should have tried and optimized the perl program.

Maybe you coudl optimize the Python program, and get the speed and the
low memory usage!

 
> This is just an example, not a benchmark. So don't draw
> general conclusions.

A benchmark is just an example anyway...

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