[nibbling a little flame-bait]
Python is even slower than PHP!
Just go to any Python website and you will know.
An example is:
http://www2.ljworld.com/
I'm not sure I'm seeing what you're seeing -- the dynamic page
loaded in under 2 seconds -- about on par with sun.com,
python.org, php.net or msn.com all being pulled from non-cached
servers. You sure you're not mistaking your bandwidth and/or
browser-rendering slowness for Python-as-a-web-server slowness?
Would it be nice if Python was faster? Sure, why not?
Does it meet my needs speed-wise? 99% of the time, yes. With
Psyco, 99.9% of the time. As has been shown repeatedly over the
last couple months, algorithm-choice makes a far greater impact
than some python tweaks. Most of my time spent waiting is
usually on I/O (disk, network, or user). And those times I've
experienced slowness where I'm not waiting on I/O, it's always
been an algorithm aspect (an O(N**2) fuzzy comparison algorithm
is my prime offender). A faster Python might shave a 30-60
seconds off a 10 minute run, but it's still a walk around the
office either way.
Python is slow. Very slow.
However until you have a use-case that *you* have implemented
with *real code*, publicly vetted the algorithm, and THEN find it
slow as demonstrated by profiled timings, I'm afraid it's all
just unsubstantiated hot air to say categorically that "python is
slow". It might be "too slow to do some particular CPU-intensive
task", but it's repeatedly proven quite sufficient for a wide
variety of development needs.
-tkc
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