On Mar 1, 8:10 am, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > > Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> writes: > >> I'm not sure what you think the speed of Ruby has to do with Python. > > > In the real world, people care about the relative speed of programs. > > Fine, but theShootoutonAliothisn't a particularly pythonic one. It > deals almost exclusively with computationally intensive tasks, i.e. > programs where any decent Python developer would either import Psyco or > speed up the code in Cython.
It deals exclusively with small programs in isolation as if they were the bottleneck. > As long as that gives you improvements of > 100-1000 times almost for free, I wouldn't bother too much with changing > the platform just because someone shows me benchmark results of some code > that I absolutely don't need in my daily work. What examples do you have of 1000x improvement? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
