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From: mgm at unpkhswm04.bscc.bls.com (Mitchell Morris)
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Date: 28 Apr 1999 11:24:37 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>
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Message-ID: <slrn7idrvl.kc0.mgm@unpkhswm04.bscc.bls.com>
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X-UID: 1191
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In article <p5g15lmb35.fsf at bidra241.bbn.hp.com>, Markus Kohler wrote:
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[snip]
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>Python would be appropriate for much more problems if it would only be as fast
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>as other scripting languages. The bytecode interpreter IS significantly slower
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>than other byte code interpreted languages.
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[snip]
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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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[snip]
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>From profiling python 1.5.2c I found that python's main problem is that
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>calling functions seems to be very costly.
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[snip]
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>Markus
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>--
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>Markus Kohler mailto:markus_kohler at hp.com
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If it's not too much trouble, could you post your benchmark code and results,
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either here or on a web page?
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+Mitchell
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--
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Mitchell Morris
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Underlying Principle of Socio-Genetics: Superiority is recessive.
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