-On [20080110 11:46], A.T.Hofkamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >In my experience however, differences in CPU execution time are usually >meaningless compared to differences in development time.
I have to disagree with you to a point. Yes, maintenance of code is important, no denying that. However, if I can calculate N variations of a certain material's properties in an hour and using Python will cut that in half, the number of calculated variations per hour, I will be concerned. This is especially so for people designing, say, optics. If you look at the amount of optimizing designs and calculating the resulting properties and doing this for X iterations in a day it becomes quite painfully obvious that raw CPU execution time *does* matter. 't All varies with what you want, of course... -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
