Could Python supplant Java?

[Gerhard Häring]

Bo M. Maryniuck wrote:
> On Friday 23 August 2002 12:04, James J. Besemer wrote:
>>     http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17568.html
> Yes, cool. And what? You came here with advertisement how M$ WC is cool and 
> how Python is slow? :/ Yes, it runs slower a little and what? You want 
> fastest implementation? Then go code with Assembler.

Asm isn't necessarily faster than what a good compiler (C, Ocaml, whatever)
produces. Especially for complex CPUs like today's, where you have to take
pipelines into account.

> It provides a smallest 
> binary...
> 
>> Probably runs a fuck of a lot faster too.
> Thank you for plain/text message and now please start to control your
> tongue and also do not post to me double messages.

Your posts seem to be mostly trolls, too. Oh well, I'll just kill the whole
thread in my newsreader.
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