Van Rossum: Python Not Too Slow

snydeq writes "Python creator Guido van Rossum discusses the prospects and criticisms of Python, noting that critics of Python performance should supplement with C/C++ rather than re-engineering Python apps into a faster language. 'At some point, you end up with one little piece of your system, as a whole, where you end up spending all your time. If you write that just as a sort of simple-minded Python loop, at some point you will see that that is the bottleneck in your system. It is usually much more effective to take that one piece and replace that one function or module with a little bit of code you wrote in C or C++ rather than rewriting your entire system in a faster language, because for most of what you're doing, the speed of the language is irrelevant.'"

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Logically Logical Logic

[l0ungeb0y]

"It is usually much more effective to take that one piece and replace that one function or module with a little bit of code you wrote in C or C++ rather than rewriting your entire system in a faster language"

Ahh -- yes, I see, so I should write my Apps in Python, except where they need to be rewritten in C/C++ because that will run faster than when written in Python, but Python is not slow when you rewrite portions -- so don't rewrite in a faster language because Pyton is fast enough.

Alrighty then.

Python: Not Much Worse Than Ruby

[busyqth]

I'm waiting for the article:

Van Rossum: Python Not Much Worse Than Ruby
"Python creator Guido van Rossum discusses the prospects and criticisms of Python, noting that critics of Python should supplement with Ruby rather than re-engineering Python apps into a better language."

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[Bromskloss]

Python! :-)

Re:007087

[Jeremi]

the one working in python will literally run circles around the guy working in C/C++

Pedant police here. You are under arrest for abusing the word 'literally'. Hand over your poetic license and step away from the keyboard.