From: paul at prescod.net (Paul Prescod)
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:43:28 GMT
Subject: Python IS slow ! [was] Re: Python too slow for real world
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Markus Kohler wrote:
> 
> 
> You are right that one should choose the right tool for a problem, but
> I disagree that Python is optimized for the general case. Squeak a free
> Smalltalk implementation (www.squeak.org), is already much faster ( about
> 3 times actually )  than python and it has even a true Garbage
> Collector. 

This is a little off-topic but I'm curious whether squeak has an embedding
API. Is there any languge that is as easy to embed as Python, and also has
full garbage collection?

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