On Nov 11, 3:15 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > I can imagine a day when code compiled from Python is routinely > time-competitive with hand-written C.
That time is now, in many cases. I still stand by my strategy published in Unix World ages ago: get it working in Python, profile it, optimize it, if you need to do it faster code the inner loops in C. Of course on google app engine, the last step is not possible, but I don't think it is needed for 90% of applications or more. My own favorite app on google app engine/appspot is http://listtree.appspot.com/ implemented using whiff http://whiff.sourceforge.net as described in this tutorial http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/docs/W1100_2300.GAEDeploy not as fast as I would like sporadically. But that's certainly not Python's problem because the same application running on my laptop is *much* faster. By the way: the GO language smells like Rob Pike, and I certainly hope it is more successful than Limbo was. Of course, if Google decides to really push it then it's gonna be successful regardless of all other considerations, just like Sun did to Java... -- Aaron Watters === Limbo: how low can you go? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list