* Isaac Gouy (Sun, 1 Mar 2009 08:27:05 -0800 (PST)) > 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.
Right. But they aren't. So people who draw any conclusions from that like "C++ is faster than C" or "Ruby is slower than Python" or "Python is 30 times slower than C" draw the wrong conclusions. Thorsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
