Is python really slow?

Wed May 22 20:19:30 EDT 2002

On 5/22/02 9:36 AM, in article
slrnaen7oo.44l.msoulier at pmerd071.ca.nortel.com, "Michael P. Soulier"
<msoulier at nortelnetworks.com_.nospam> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 May 2002 20:34:01 -0500, Mark McEahern <marklists at mceahern.com>
> wrote:
>> For what it's worth, the OP might want to check this out:
>> 
>>   http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/
> 
>   ?? How did Java score higher than Python? Any use for Java I've tried it's
> been incredibly slow.
Any Java performance evaluation that doesn't take into account the effect of
JITC/HotSpot is worthless. Unless the test program runs for quite a while,
runtime will include byte-code interpretation (before the frequently-visited
code is compiled) and compilation.

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