In article <6b4176c3-49ce-4e7c-bced-07d8d19bc...@s20g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, r <rt8...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can't just blindly Parrot off.. "well CPU's get faster every > year". Sure you can :-) There was a nice treatment of this on slashdot today (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001198.html). The executive summary is I'm willing to accept that Python is (big handwave) 10x slower than C++, because *I'm* 10x faster writing in Python than I am in C++, and I cost more than my computer. Moore's laws says (small handwave) CPU speed doubles every 24 months. At that rate, and assuming I remember enough high-school algebra to solve a compound interest problem, hardware gets 10% faster every 3 months. If Python gets 10% slower every 10 years or so, it's ahead of the curve. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
