On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:32 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > You'd be surprised how rarely that kind of performance even matters. > The author of that article cites C# as a superior language, but in the > rewrite from C# to Python (the same one I mentioned in the other > post), I sped the program up incredibly. Part of that is because C# > requires the startup of its framework (in my case that's Mono) just as > Python does, and partly it's because the simplicity of Python let me > eliminate a number of unnecessary HTTP requests. Trust me, your choice > of language doesn't help you if it means you do three (sequential) > HTTP requests when one would have done. Clean code has its own > advantages.
Okay, I'm curious. How did C# force you to make extra HTTP requests that were no longer necessary when you rewrote in Python? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
