Is python really slow?

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Tue, 21 May 2002 19:12:19 -0600, Bjorn Pettersen <BPettersen at NAREX.com>
wrote:
> 
> I'm not a Perl expert, but from what I hear it is considerably harder to
> extend/embed Perl (someone please correct me if I'm wrong <wink>).

    You're not wrong. Both Tcl, Python and Ruby use the concept of including a
simple header file, learning some new types and semantics, and you're off and
running. Easy. 
    Perl, on the other hand, uses the XS framework, which requires a bunch of
extra macros and such in your C to make it merge with Perl. It's a major pain,
and it's something they're planning to fix in Perl 6 (currently vapourware)
because they've been so heavily criticized for it. 

    Mike

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