From: ajung at sz-sb.de (Andreas Jung)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:24:34 GMT
Subject: Python too slow for real world
In-Reply-To: <37207E20.21D3CCDD@appliedbiometrics.com>; from Christian Tismer on Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 04:05:20PM +0200
References: <372068E6.16A4A90@icrf.icnet.uk> <37207E20.21D3CCDD@appliedbiometrics.com>
Message-ID: <19990423182434.A9539@sz-sb.de>
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On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 04:05:20PM +0200, Christian Tismer wrote:
> 
> Summarizing: Stay with the Perl code, if you need it so fast. 
> Perl is made for this real world low-level stuff. 
> Python is for the real world high level stuff.

There's nothing more to add - just some remarks. 
We are running several production processes that are mainly
based on Python in several ways - we use use Python
as middleware component for combining databases like Oracle,
workflow systems like staffeware, Corba components ....
Are systems consiss of several thousands lines of code and
the code is still manageable. Have you ever seen a Perl
script with a thousand lines that has been readable and
understandable ? And speed has never been a real problem
for Python. Ok - Perl's regex engine seems to be faster
but not the whole world consists of regular expressions.
Python is in every case more open and flexible for building
large systems - take Perl to hack your scrips and build
real systems with Python :-)

Cheers,
Andreas





