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From: behrends at cse.msu.edu (Reimer Behrends)
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Date: 29 Apr 1999 23:27:10 GMT
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Subject: Python IS slow ! [was] Re: Python too slow for real world
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References: <613145F79272D211914B0020AFF6401914DAD8@gandalf.digicool.com> <p5g15lmb35.fsf@bidra241.bbn.hp.com> <37272CA0.3F3F02A2@prescod.net>
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Message-ID: <slrn7ihn46.35q.behrends@allegro.cse.msu.edu>
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Paul Prescod (paul at prescod.net) wrote:
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> Markus Kohler wrote:
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> > You are right that one should choose the right tool for a problem, but
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> > I disagree that Python is optimized for the general case. Squeak a free
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> > Smalltalk implementation (www.squeak.org), is already much faster ( about
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> > 3 times actually ) than python and it has even a true Garbage
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> > Collector.
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> This is a little off-topic but I'm curious whether squeak has an embedding
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> API. Is there any languge that is as easy to embed as Python, and also has
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> full garbage collection?
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Ruby. (Was discussed here before.) See
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http://www.netlab.co.jp/ruby/
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I think it is actually easier to extend with C code (because you don't
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have to keep track of reference counts, among other things). On the
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other hand, I could live without some of the more Perl-inspired
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constructs in Ruby (nothing against Perl in general, it just happens
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that its feature set is just the opposite of what I personally like in
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a programming language -- i.e. thousands of different idioms and
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extensive use of punctuation symbols).
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Reimer Behrends
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