Performances of Pyhton programs

[Mark Nenadov]

> Are there any benchmark or does anoyone know what are the performances
> of a program written in python (in terms of CPU and RAM) compared with
> other languages (especially C++ and compiled languages) ?
>    I've met many articles which explain that python programs are slowler
> because it uses the interpreter, but none says how much slower it is ! I
> would like to know this for a rather big OO program which uses standard
> fonctions of the language.
> Thanks
> --
> François Baire

You may want to check out "The Great Computer Language Shootout" 
(http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/) or "An empirical comparison of 
C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl for a search/string-processing 
program" (http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccpprtTR.ps.gz). I 
found those to be interesting. They will probably have some helpful info 
for you.

I hope that helps,
~Mark Nenadov