Using Python for programming algorithms

[Arnaud Delobelle]

brad <byte8bits at gmail.com> writes:

>> Vicent Giner wrote:
>
>> The usual answer is that development time is more important than
>> running time.
>
> This depends. Run time is not important until you are asked to scale
> to millions or billions of users or computations or large data
> sets. I've seen this first hand. Getting results back the same day or
> sooner may be important. In cases such as this, I use C or
> C++... nothing else will do. Nothing else is as fast. Although I
> always keep a py version around for testing and for smaller
> tasks. Don't get me wrong, I love Python, but there are times when
> nothing, but pure, hard speed will do.

Sure.  Be careful not to overdose on it though.

-- 
Arnaud