On Dec 9, 10:07 pm, "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think most Java-Python benchmarks you can find online will indicate > >> that Java is a 3-10 times faster. A few here: > >>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-January/125789.html > >>http://blog.snaplogic.org/?p=55 > > > There are lies, damn lies and benchmarks. :) > > > Pure Python code is not going to beat Java code until the Python core > > gets a JIT compiler. If you want fair results you have to either > > disable the JIT in Java or use Psyco for Python. Otherwise you are > > comparing the quality of one language implementation to the quality of a > > JIT compiler. > > The second articple does have a column for Psyco. It helps in some areas > but still not good enough to stand up against Java. Plus, Psyco is not the > main stream and has stopped development. > > I'm also wondering, if Psyco is the right way to do, any reason it's not > being integrated into standard Python?
Instead of recurring to benchmarks, I recommend that you read the following: http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture There are no comparisons there, just a sample of what python and psyco can achieve. For a language that isn't designed with speed in mind, I think that's quite impressive. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
