Python is far from a top performer according to benchmark test...
Krzysztof Stachlewski
stach at fr.USUN.pl
Fri Jan 9 18:11:01 EST 2004
"JanC" <usenet_spam at janc.invalid> wrote in message
news:Xns946BE66E88E82JanC at 213.119.4.35...
> "Krzysztof Stachlewski" <stach at fr.USUN.pl> schreef:
>
> I think all (or at least most) of the tested compilers, VMs, etc. were
> written in C/C++, and thus are using libraries written in C/C++...
Well, yes.
Whether or not you can say that a piece of code
is *really* implemented in a chosen language and not
in "the language that this language is implemented in" ;-)
is a matter of scale.
I just think that the Numeric package
is not the best example of the speed of Python itself.
Stach
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