BartC wrote: > On 28/02/2015 15:33, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> It also makes me wonder what idiot decided to use C as the language for >> the first Python implementation? Or was it written in something else and >> then ported? > > Python was already slow enough even written in C.
Tell that to the IronPython developers. Of course, benchmarks are very variable, depending on what you wish to do, and a few things (like exceptions) are very much slower in IronPython: http://ironpython.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=IP27A1VsCPy27Perf&referringTitle=IronPython%20Performance but overall, I think it's fair to say that IronPython is about 1.8 times the speed of CPython. > With any other implementation language, it would have ground to a halt. That's laughably inaccurate. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
