In article <37DD5B8B.9402908F at westgroup.com>, Elie Naulleau <Elie.Naulleau at westgroup.com> wrote: > >I wondering if some specs have been done about comparing >Tcl and Python performances, on strings integers and floats for >instance. >Thks, > >Elie.Naulleau at westgroup.com > Yes. This is the best summary: consider their performances indistinguishable. Your organization would be a very unusual one for the differences in performance between the two languages to matter *at all* in comparison to the profounder differences the two exhibit: programming paradigm; importance of COM facilities; integration with allied key applications (Zope, Tk, Expect, PyMath, ...); Unicode-awareness; ... Second key fact: if performance measurement is exceptionally determinative for you, you will find it more rewarding to construct your own benchmarks than to rely on the testimony of others. I write this not from general ideological nihilism about benchmarking; to the contrary, I regularly salute good work done in this area. However, the costs of writing your own test programs in these two languages are small. Moreover, the applicability of others' work on performance with these two languages is a matter for expert judgment, because both are evolving so rapidly. Measurements made in 1997 might be two (!) orders of magnitude dif- ferent from identical configurations done today. If you insist on pushing beyond these two propositions, which should structure most of your thinking, yes, a few generalizations are possible. Heavily arithmetic code will probably perform better in Pythonian source. I repeat: you'll be better off thinking about other ways Tcl and Python differ. -- Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird at NeoSoft.com +1 281 996 8546 FAX
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