Python Performance

[Markus Kohler]

Markus Stenberg <mstenber at cc.Helsinki.FI> writes:

> Skip Montanaro <skip at mojam.com> writes:
> > I got a bit confused attributing this message.  I think we have too many
> > Markus's running around loose... ;-)  I think I have the quoted text
> > attributed correctly.  Apologies if not.
> 
> You had it reversed ;)
> 
> > Better yet, since the Python source code is available, you could prove it by
> > speeding up the interpreter.  Many people have optimized different parts of
> > Python over the lifetime of the software.  It's significantly faster than it
> > was a couple years ago.
> 
> Being able to note a problem differs greatly from being able to _fix_ a
> problem ;-) I've glanced thru it, and can't offhand find anything _very_
> badly implemented that I could fix.

I agree. The code looks really good. That's why I think that  there are some design
issues to solve if one want to have a faster Python. 

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Markus (Kohler)
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