Jorgen Grahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I feel the recent SMP hype (in general, and in Python) is a red herring. Why > do I need that extra performance? What application would use it?
How many mhz does the computer you're using right now have? When did you buy it? Did you buy it to replace a slower one? If yes, you must have wanted more performance. Just about everyone wants more performance. That's why mhz keeps going up and people keep buying faster and faster cpu's. CPU makers seem to be running out of ways to increase mhz. Their next avenue to increasing performance is SMP, so they're going to do that and people are going to buy those. Just like other languages, Python makes perfectly good use of increasing mhz, so it keeps up with them. If the other languages also make good use of SMP and Python doesn't, Python will fall back into obscurity. > Am I prepared to pay the price (in bugs, lack of features, money, > etc) for someone to implement this? There's already a lot of > performance lost in bloatware people use everyday; why are we not > paying the much lower price for having that fixed with traditional > code optimization? That is needed too. But obviously increased hardware speed has a lot going for it. That's why people keep buying faster computers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
