[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Looking over the benchmarks, one gains the impression that Python is a >>> slow language. >> What does that even mean - a slow language? >> > > The alioth benchmarks provide a set of numbers by which > languages may be compared.
Wrong. The benchmarks provide a set of numbers by which _implementations_ of languages can be compared. After all, it is possible that someone implements a magic-pixie-dust-interpreter that executes Python programs several orders of magnitude fastes than CPython. Or you could say that C is slow because if you use CINT, a C interpreter ( http://root.cern.ch/root/Cint.html ) to execute it, it is slow. Cheers, Carl Friedrich Bolz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
