Speed Comparison Perl Python & C

[Paul Rubin]

Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at nospam.uci.edu> writes:
> Not quite fair.  The Python version does long-integer
> (infinite-precision) math when i is greater than 65534 on a 32 bit
> processor. 

Why is that unfair?  It's showing a difference between Fortran and
Python, that Fortran supports 64-bit integers, while Python has to
resort to longs.

> Furthermore, you allow fortran to optimize the loop, but you don't
> optimize the python loop yourself, using those portions built-in that
> are known to be fast.

Nothing stops Python from optimizing the loop.  It just doesn't do so.
Again, it's an implementation vs implementation comparison, with
Fortran winning.