ANN: Dogelog Runtime, Prolog to the Moon (2021)
Mostowski Collapse
janburse at fastmail.fm
Wed Sep 15 10:02:36 EDT 2021
Oops "speed did never hurt anybody". Don't be
evil, I am talking about unarmed drones.
See also:
Drone Programming With Python Course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmEcyQnfpDA
Mostowski Collapse schrieb:
> I am not testing this use-case. But a related
> use-case might highlight why speed did never
> hurt anybody.
>
> Lets say you program a flying drone with Python,
> and the measurement is from the drone sensor
> and communication systems.
>
> Lets say you are using the idle time between
> measurements for some complex planning. It
> is then not true that you have anyway
>
> to wait for the measurement.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> BTW: If somebody knows another Python implementation
> I am happy to test this implementation as well.
> I am assuming that the standard Python python.exe
>
> I tested amounts to CPython? Not sure. And the
> GraalVM is practically the same as JPython? Not
> sure either.
>
>> Opinion: Anyone who is counting on Python for truly fast compute
>> speed is probably using Python for the wrong purpose. Here, we use
>> Python to control Test Equipment, to set up the equipment and ask for
>> a measurement, get it, and proceed to the next measurement; and at the
>> end produce a nice formatted report. If we wrote the test script in C
>> or Rust or whatever it could not run substantially faster because it
>> is communicating with the test equipment, setting it up and waiting
>> for responses, and that is where the vast majority of the time goes.
>> Especially if the measurement result requires averaging it can take a
>> while. In my opinion this is an ideal use for Python, not just
>> because the speed of Python is not important, but also because we can
>> easily find people who know Python, who like coding in Python, and
>> will join the company to program in Python ... and stay with us.
>> --- Joseph S.
>
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