sturlamolden a écrit : > On 9 Des, 23:34, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Nevertheless it is just one algorithm that beats Python in an area that >>is well known to be slow. Python's numbers are several factors slower >>than C code because the overhead of the dynamic language throws lots of >>data out of the cache line. If you need fast and highly optimized int >>and floating point operations you can rewrite the algorithm in C and >>create a Python interface for it. > > > Lisp is a dynamically typed language. CMUCL can compete with Fortran > for numerical work. SBCL can compete with the Java server VM. If the > current CPython VM throws data out of the cache line, then it must be > a design flaw in the VM.
Or a lack of time and money. Lisp is one of the older programming languages around, and at a time had BigBucks(tm) invested on it to try and make it practically usable. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
