> Read his post again. He didn't ask a specific question at all, and he > certainly didn't mention execution speed.
agreed > He asked a vague, meaningless question about whether Python was "slow > compared to C". No, that is both wrong and gratuitously harsh. He had heard vague meaningless complaints about whether Python was "slow compared to C" and asked us to "pinpoint the issue", i.e., to determine in what sense the allegation might be true. That is a precise and meaningful question and being asked in a commendable fashion. mt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list