Perl code 37 times quickly than Python code??

[Alex Martelli]

"Garry Hodgson" <garry at sage.att.com> wrote in message
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> if you need speed, go with a compiled language.

If you need speed, code in Python.  Then, benchmark, profile and
extensively analyze the performance characteristics of your code.
Experiment with widely different architectures.  If you can still
boil things down to irreducible CPU-bound bottlenecks, as the last
resort recode THOSE parts only (as an extension, in C or C++) in
the rare but possible case in which existing extensions (such as
Numeric) cannot meet your performance needs.

This would be MY advice, at least.


Alex