#! rnews 1689 Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Path: news.xs4all.nl!newsspool.news.xs4all.nl!transit.news.xs4all.nl!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.abs.net!attws2!ip.att.net!NetNews1!xyzzy!nntp From: Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Python for everything? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: cola2.ca.boeing.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Lines: 29 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: The Boeing Company References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:10:56 GMT Xref: news.xs4all.nl comp.lang.python:384366
Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > can Python "do it all"? > [snip] > The other is in bit-twiddling - anything that involves > mucking about with data at the level of bits and bytes. Maybe this is > just blind prejudice, but i'm never as comfortable hacking on that > sort of stuff (writing a Huffman coder, say) in python as in java. Maybe we should distinguish: 1. Can you do it at all? Yes, via the struct package and via the bit operators. And, the bit operators support the same idioms we all know and love from C. 2. Can it be done "fast enough"? Maybe. I wrote a Morse code generator based on algorithms from a C program, which generated pcm files. The initial cut was way too slow. Then I did some caching and got it fast enough to use. Still not C speeds, but fast enough for the task. But if you are doing encryptions (where even C is giving way to hardware), then Python is not the answer. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6-6M21 BCA CompArch Design Engineering Phone: (425) 294-4718 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
