Why is Python so slow?

[Moshe Zadka]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, William Dandreta wrote:

> The Python version was 1.2.

Ummmmm.....I'm not sure when 1.2 was current, but it was probably more
then 3 years ago. How about benchmarking vs. something a little more
recent?

> Why does it take Python 50 times longer than C?

If you code C in Python, you'll get 50 times difference. If you code good
Python in Python, you can reach speeds which are quite close for text
analysis.

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