Pure Python?
Pure Python?
Posted Sep 11, 2009 6:34 UTC (Fri) by drag (guest, #31333)In reply to: Pure Python? by zlynx
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Maybe, maybe not. There is already a lot of highly optimized C being used in
that program, even if it is not apparent on the surface. Take numpy, which is
something entirely different and is a math library created for scientific
computing and is programmed by using python. Try telling those folks that
python is slow. :)
that program, even if it is not apparent on the surface. Take numpy, which is
something entirely different and is a math library created for scientific
computing and is programmed by using python. Try telling those folks that
python is slow. :)
It all depends on the algorithms being used and the skill of the programmer.
There are a thousand ways to skin a cat in Python, but only a few of them
will have good performance and it takes a understanding of computer
architecture, algorithms, and python to find those out. High level
programming is a lousy substitution for skill and knowledge.