On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 25/06/2010 22:25, Stephen Hansen wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Mark >> Lawrence<breamore...@yahoo.co.uk>wrote: >> >>> On 25/06/2010 16:34, Stephen Hansen wrote: >>> >>> Python's slow, sure. But its in practice fast enough for an extremely >>>> >>>> broad >>>> range of activities. >>>> >>>> >>> What? >>> >> >> What, what? >> >> --S >> >> > > Python is *NOT* slow, you can develop software in it much faster than you > can in some other languages. The run time speed has also been shown to be > faster in some circumstance than C because of the Bots who're smart enough > to optimise it up to the hilt.
CPython is written in C. By definition it cannot go faster than C, and extensive practice bears this out- the stdlib is full of modules either written or rewritten in C for speed, not to mention numpy, sage, etc. I'd also like to see the example you cite- I have written Haskell that runs faster than C, and Forth that runs faster than C, and I consider myself reasonably proficient at Python and have *never* seen Python code that executes faster than comparably optimized C. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
