>> A language has nothing to do with speed of execution! It seems like Javascript's gotten faster in the last 10 years or so.
I used to write little benchmarks to compare Turbo C and Turbo Pascal, Pascal always won. > (Point being once things reach a certain level of complexity, issues > like available developer time and architectural decisions and so on > can become rather significant. For a one-time use program sure, but things like Python shouldn't be unleashed on an unsuspecting public. Gimp 2.8 is noticeably slower than 2.6 I think it was in OpenBSD 5.2. Move the cursor over the image and it's like it's in la-la land. Try to sign your name with the mouse. Of Inkscape and Libre Office Draw, surprisingly Libre Office is the faster and works better for an SVG signature. But not as fast as this amazing little page: http://mcc.id.au/2010/signature.html -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
