Should be typed.... Java and .Net are measurably slower than Python, especially Java, and especially in real world applications.<br><br>Python does not remove the possibility of procedural code - therefore if you are a smart little coder you can write awesome code that doesn't need Garbage Collection!!! (a novel idea)<br>
<br>Even Closures can be manually 'garbage collected'.<br><br>I need someone on here who has some common sense and doesn't think "Managed Code" is the cure all, solve all, only way to code.<br><br>Many services in Linux are actually Python applications running all the time in the background, and many many servers I've written are python applications.<br>
<br>Any program that is written Object Oriented will suffer a performance loss over a procedural program.<br><br>#include "unp.h"<br>void<br>str_echo (int sockfd)<br>{<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 09:32 -0400, john-thomas richards wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:44:11AM -0400, <a href="mailto:peyeps@iserv.net">peyeps@iserv.net</a> wrote:<br>
> [snip]<br>
> > What I was thinking of was a single location where you could buy an<br>
> > application for any platform, Windows, Mac and Linux. There are so many<br>
> > things out there that are for only one or two platforms.<br>
> > Even free stuff is not available for all platforms. For example the<br>
> > Chrome browser, though I understand there is a beta for Linux available<br>
> > now.<br>
> > Possibly applications built on top of Python might be good candidates for<br>
> > the "Universal App Store", because Python is available for all three<br>
> > platforms. There might be a speed issue with python though. I don't know<br>
> > because I've not done anything with it myself.<br>
> I'm an alpha tester for an opensource python app (lyric projection;<br>
> <a href="http://openlp.org" target="_blank">http://openlp.org</a>) and I can say that speed---at least with this<br>
> app---is not an issue. It may be my machine (doubtful) or it may be<br>
> good coding (dunno; not a developer) or it may be a simple application<br>
> (projecting lyrics/text with two monitors or monitor/projector) or it<br>
> may really be that python speed isn't a concern. All this to say that<br>
> in my very limited experience, the question of speed with python isn't<br>
> even on my radar.<br>
<br>
</div>Python is measurably slower than C/Java/.NET, but not terribly so. For<br>
a long-lived Python app I'd be more concerned about the effectiveness of<br>
GC than of raw speed; but I haven't personally seen anything to<br>
indicate there is a real problem with GC. That is just a gut feeling I<br>
have after dealing with many generations of various 'script' and<br>
sloppy-typed languages.<br>
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