Computer Language Shootout

2005-11-29 Thread igouy
We don't have Python implementations for one program, and a couple of the Python programs we do have show Error. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python&lang2=python Please contribute missing Python programs or faster more-elegant Python programs. Please follow the

Re: Computer Language Shootout

2005-11-29 Thread igouy
We don't scrape programs from news-groups, if you'd like the program to be shown on the shootout then please attach the source code to a tracker item. Please follow the FAQ instructions http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/faq.php#contribute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is a direct translation o

Re: Computer Language Shootout

2005-11-30 Thread igouy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bengt Richter wrote: > > On 29 Nov 2005 14:08:12 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >We don't scrape programs from news-groups, if you'd like the program to > > >be shown on the shootout then please attach the source code to a > > >tracker item. > > You asked for so

Re: Computer Language Shootout

2005-11-30 Thread igouy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is a direct translation of the D code, maybe it's not the faster > Python implementation, and surely it's not the shorter one. But Psyco > makes it much faster (Psyco likes "low level" style code). And if you contributed the program like this http://shootout.alioth

Re: Computer Language Shootout

2005-11-30 Thread igouy
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Bengt Richter wrote: > > > That's not just blunt and concise, it looks like the modus operandi > > of a typical volunteer/employee-exploiter (or perhaps spoiled brat, > > the typical precursor to the former). > > careful. his faq requires you to "be nice". > > "Be Nice!"

Re: python speed

2005-11-30 Thread igouy
Paul Boddie wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: > > David Rasmussen wrote: > > Faster than assembly? LOL... :) > > > Faster than physics? ;-) > > > I think the claim goes something along the lines of "assembly is so > hard > > to get right that if you can automatically generate it from a HLL, > not > >

Re: survey

2005-03-11 Thread igouy
> The Language Shootout at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ has code > samples in many languages, both interpreted and compiled, including the > ones you mentioned. Don't trust the lines-of-code statistics, though -- > the LOC measure is wrongly shown as zero for several codes, and comment > line

Re: code for Computer Language Shootout

2005-03-29 Thread igouy
We've made it somewhat easier to contribute programs. No need to subscribe to the mailing-list. No need for a user-id or login. See the FAQ "How can I contribute a program?" http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/faq.php -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is Python appropriate for web applications?

2005-04-15 Thread igouy
> > How about the speed of execution? > > There is no simple answer. Both languages use C functions which are > executed at CPU speed. But with interpreted code Python seems to be > approximately 3-4 times faster than PHP (http://dada.perl.it/shootout/). The Win32 Computer Language Shootout hasn'

Re: n-body problem at shootout.alioth.debian.org

2006-10-07 Thread igouy
Peter Maas wrote: > Paul McGuire wrote: > > The advance method is the most fertile place for optimization, since it is > > called approximately n(n-1)/2 times (where n=2E7). I was able to trim about > > 25% from the Python runtime with these changes: > [...] > > My results: > > Your changes: 18%

Re: Python vs. Lisp -- please explain

2006-02-22 Thread igouy
Donn Cave wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > They won't say Java. Ask them why Python is interpreted and Java isn't > > and you'll have a hard time getting a decent technical answer, because > > Python isn't all that different from Java

Re: Is python very slow compared to C

2006-02-24 Thread igouy
Magnus Lycka wrote: > Isaac Gouy wrote: > >>I think it is wrong to call Python "very slow" just because it is slower > >>than some other language or languages, for the same reason it would be > >>wrong to describe the population of the UK as "very low" because 60 > >>million people is a smaller nu