Language Shootout

[Paul Winkler]

James Logajan wrote:
> 
> Paul Winkler wrote:
> > So basically what that benchmark tells me is: "Don't write recursively in Python
> > if performance is an issue".
> 
> Well yes, this is what benchmarks are useful for.

Right. I didn't know that before I looked at the site, so I'm glad I did.

I just wanted to prevent other people from making my initial mistake - assuming
that the tests only had to produce the same result. I was surprised how far down
the list python was on the fibonacci test until I started playing around with
alternative implementations and realized it was the recursion that was slowing
it down.

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