Python Speed Question and Opinion
djw
dwelch91 at comcast.net
Sat Jun 5 12:37:34 EDT 2004
Irmen de Jong wrote:
> Maboroshi wrote:
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>> In my opinion Python is the best language there is and I love it. The
>> reason for me asking these questions was because I saw a lot of people
>> trying to compare python to C and I had to find out what the big deal was
>> and why C would be a faster language - I like to know how things work -
>
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> I have taken the liberty of taking a few of the comments made
> in this thread and writing them down here:
> http://www.razorvine.net/python/PythonSpeed
> I've added a few other things related to Python's performance,
> such as a short reference to Psyco.
>
>
> --Irmen de Jong.
>
I don't think I agree with your statement at the bottom that says "if
all else fails, try Psyco." Since using Psyco is so effortless and may
produce dramatic speedups, I would recommend to people that they try it
before resorting to writing extension modules in C/C++. Sending people
that are new to Python down the extension writing path may turn them off
to Python altogether.
-Don
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