Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au>: > The latter is not a property of Python; a programming language doesn't > have runtime performance. Rather, runtime performance is a property of > some specific *implementation* — that is, the runtime Python machine. > > There are numerous Python runtimes, and they have different > performance characteristics on different hardware and operating > systems.
Still, Python has features that defy effective optimization. Most notably, Python's dot notation translates into a hash table lookup -- or worse. I currently carry three clubs in my professional golf bag: bash, python and C. Java is a great programming language, but Python and C manage everything Java would be useful for. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
