improving python performance by extension module (64bit)

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Sat Jun 26 07:11:08 EDT 2010


On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:08:27 -0400, geremy condra wrote:

> I have written Haskell that runs faster than C, and Forth that runs
> faster than C,

Faster than *what* C, though?

With Haskell, there's seldom a significant performance hit for using
-fvia-C, so you would probably have been able to get comparable
performance using C.

The most common reason for Haskell to outperform C is due to lazy
evaluation, i.e. the C code evaluates things which it doesn't actually
need to.




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