km wrote: > Is python runtime slow at all aspects when compared to perl ?
And in addition to all that everyone else has said.... most of this is startup time. The python interpreter is a fair bit slower to start up (i.e. does much more at startup time) than the perl one: > lenford$ time python -c "pass" > > real 0m0.298s > user 0m0.030s > sys 0m0.030s > lenford$ time perl -e "0" > > real 0m0.037s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.000s [on a fairly fast Solaris box]. This is mainly because much more of python is written in python and needs to be loaded / dynamically linked when the process starts up. On my system, python loads 14 .so files and 13 .pyc files. Perl loads 7 .so files. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
