Python IO performance?

[Rob Hall]

"Tim Roberts" <timr at probo.com> wrote in message
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> "Rob Hall" <robhall at ii.net> wrote:
> >...
> >I converted the program into Ada - Ada being very fast.  But there were
no
> >real performance gains here.
>
> I'm taking this thread wildly off-topic, but that line intrigued me.  The
> last time I worked with Ada, better than a decade ago, the compilers were
> absolutely hopeless, partly because the language is so vast and complex.
> It looked like there would never be a time Ada could compete with C or
> Fortran in terms of performance.
>
> Has that situation changed?
> --
> - Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
>   Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

I've only dabbled in ada over the last few years.  I've always found it on
par or better than c++ on simple projects (which is all I use it for).   I
often convert small peices of Python into Ada, but this is the first time
I've used it primarily for serious IO.

Rob Hall