Cython/Sage is no small undertaking, but I have no idea how to measure relative success between that and hiphop.
Ben On Jan 6, 2011, at 11:11 AM, John Nagle wrote: > On 1/4/2011 12:20 PM, Google Poster wrote: >> >> About once a year, I have to learn yet another programming language. >> Given all the recommendations (an outstanding accolade from Bruce >> Eckel, author of "Thinking in Java") I have set my aim to Python. >> Sounds kinda cool. > > If you're just doing simple web-based services, PHP is the > way of least resistance. It's supported by almost all hosting > services. Trying to run Python on shared hosting is generally > painful. Either you're stuck running in CGI, which means you > take the cost of a Python load on every transaction, or you > have to find someone who will let you run long-running > processes so you can run FCGI/WSGI or some Python framework. > > Efforts to compile PHP to hard code have been more successful > than the corresponding efforts for Python. Facebook developed > and uses their HipHop compiler for their huge internal PHP > code base. > > John Nagle > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
