On Dec 12, 11:41 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquech...@free.quelquepart.fr> wrote: > sturlamolden a écrit : > (snip) > > > Creating a fast implementation of a dynamic language is almost rocket > > science. But it has been done. There is Stronghold, the fastest > > version of Smalltalk known to man, on which the Sun Java VM is based. > > On a recent benchmark Java 6 -server beats C compiled by GCC 4.2.3 > > cf bearophile's comment on this point (CPU architecture and RAM) > > > And > > most of that magic comes from an implementation of a dynamically typed > > language (Smalltalk). > > Err... Where is _Java_ "dynamic" actually ? A benchmark of _Smalltalk_ > VM vs CPython VM would make more sense.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=vw&lang2=python > > > Second, there are other fast implementations of dynamic languages. The > > CMUCL and SBCL versions of Common Lisp comes to min; you can see how > > SBCL does in the same benchmark (CMUCL tends to be even faster). > > Could it be that there are some type hints in the lisp versions of the > source code ? > > > So Python is a lot slower than it needs to be. > > Please fix it, you're welcome. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
