On 22 May, 17:14, cm_gui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python is slow. Almost all of the web applications written in > Python are slow. Zope/Plone is slow, sloow, so very slooow. Even > Google Apps is not faster. Neither is Youtube. > Facebook and Wikipedia (Mediawiki), written in PHP, are so much faster > than Python. > Okay, they probably use caching or some code compilation -- but Google > Apps and those Zope sites probably also use caching. > > I've yet to see a web application written in Python which is really > fast.
You might like to look at Norvig's analysis which supports your view about Python being slow. http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list