alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Jul 30, 1:56=A0pm, koblas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ruby has been getting pummeled for the last year or more on the >> performance subject. =A0They've been working hard at improving it. =A0Fro= >m >> my arm chair perspective Python is sitting on it's laurels and not >> taking this as seriously as it probably should. > >Well, the snarky response is most Python developers are too busy >working on actual real world projects :)
The follow-up snarky response is that working on actual real world projects has lead Python developers to realise that most real world bottlenecks arise from disk access, network speed, and user interaction, and you should only sweat about code speed in the rare case when you *know* that it's not its interface to the real world that's slow. -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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