[GRLUG] python app speed

[Steve Romanow]

Michael Mol wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Ben DeMott<ben.demott at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Should be typed.... Java and .Net are measurably slower than Python,
>> especially Java, and especially in real world applications.
>>     
>
> Um, as a guy who pays attention to different languages and their
> capabilities, may I recommend we avoid falling into an argument of
> which language has been measured to be faster than another?
>
> A number of factors will affect how an application written for one
> language will perform compared to that same application written for
> another, and most of these factors are in fact controllable and
> tunable by the sufficiently savvy developer.  Everything from being
> aware of low-level constructs to being aware of the behavior of GC to
> "syntactic sugar" that lets compilers and JIT optimizers do a better
> job at reducing a high level concept into an efficient sequence of
> low-level concepts.
>
> In short, tuning is key. If you write your code strictly from a
> program flow standpoint, and if you don't consider what's going on at
> the next level down, you're not going to get the performance you can,
> and you're not going to recognize when some weird construct or pattern
> of behavior in your code is causing the problems.
>
>   
What is GC?  I do not know that acronym.  I think what I am centering on 
is the speed of development and maintenance.  As far as end user app 
speed is concerned, as long as it is acceptable I choose maintainability.