Steven D'Aprano wrote: > What is slow? Slow compared to what? Would you prefer to spend three days > writing a program that will run in twenty milliseconds, or three hours > writing the same program which runs in eighty milliseconds? Is the > computer's execution time more important than your development time? If > the computer's time is more valuable than your time, then you should be > writing in assembly language. > > Python helps you write shorter code with fewer bugs, much quicker, than C. > If you discover a specific problem that runs too slow in Python, it is > possible to write a C extension to solve that specific problem, while > still having all the other advantages of Python.
You are right, we all know that, but I think the person who asked this question doesn't want to hear a sales pitch. He asked a very specific question regarding execution speed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
