On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:15:04 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: > Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Python really isn't suitable for in-flight controls for various >> reasons, and mission critical concerns is a minor one (systems with >> less underlying complexity tend to have fewer failure modes). But >> mostly it's raw throughput: Python is just too slow. Flight control >> computers have to be powerful enough make a ton of mathematical >> calculations in a matter of milliseconds, and under strict weight and >> power constraints. The cost of running 100 times slower than optimal >> is just too high. > > I'm not convinced that's true for all avionics uses.
Of course it's not. I was talking about flight control, not avionics in general. (Perhaps when single-engine Cessnas go digital we'll even see flight controllers in Python.) Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
