On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Assuming that most of the people here are mostly python enthusiasts or > learners, I'm wondering when you would *not* use Python. Let's not > conflate this with Open Source/Closed Source etc. > > Python is the language which has (what in business terms is coined as) the right of first refusal. ie. evaluate something whether it really makes sense in python, and if not in python then start exploring what else. The primary reasons which may encourage me to use a language other than python are : a. Need for raw CPU power. Yes there are a few of such use cases. When purely CPU driven and when you really really need the CPU badly (which is probably less than 5% cases) python performance is really poor. b. Need for high amounts of multithreading even while being largely CPU bound. Yes - both situations can be handled by escaping to C from python, but I would much rather handle these in Java (or languages based on JVM) rather than C unless I am in a very constrained hardware situation. On a separate note I do believe as we start heading towards the 32 core situation (say in 5 yrs time) - there better exist a better solution than the GIL :) > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- -------------------------------------------------------- blog: http://blog.dhananjaynene.com twitter: http://twitter.com/dnene _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
