Python 2 times slower than Perl

[Gerhard Häring]

On 17 Jul 2001 13:38:12 -0700, Xu, C.S. <xucs007 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>I just compared the speed of Python, Perl, Java, C
>to do simple numerical calculations. Python is the
>slowest: took 150 times of time than C, Perl about
>60 times, Java is 4.5 times. 
>
>The source code of Python is: (Other source are
>similar, all use while loop):
>
>#!/usr/bin/env python
>i = 2.5;
>while i < 1e7:
>        j = 2.5 * 2.5
>        i += 1
>print i, j

A JIT will surely eliminate the line "j = 2.5 * 2.5", as it is just a
no-operation. Perhaps Python doesn't, while Perl does?

Gerhard
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