Douglas Alan <nessus at mit.edu> writes:
> After many years of research, they came up with a compiler for Self
> that would generate code that runs about one half to one third the
> speed of compiled C code. This is 30 to 50 times faster than
> Python.
No it isn't. At least, not for me. Generally I find that fairly
optimized C modules are about 40-60 times faster than really optimized
Python (I'm better at Python than C). Obviously "it depends", but
I've found these numbers to be fairly consistent over a variety of
tasks.
> I see no reason that the same techniques couldn't be applied to
> speed up Python, but it would probably be a hell of a lot of work
> and slow down compile times significantly.
I do wonder what the Symbolics Lisp Machine people could do with
Python, or in fact any of the Common Lisp vendors. Would be a
decidedly pricey experiment...
Cheers,
M.
--
Haha! You had a *really* weak argument! <wink>
-- Moshe Zadka, comp.lang.python
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