[Mailman-Developers] python is slow

[John Roth]

"Michael Hudson" <mwh at python.net> wrote in message
news:m3llovqsxo.fsf at pc150.maths.bris.ac.uk...
> "John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> writes:
>
> > In interpreting it, note that the Python was 1.5.2, which is quite a
> > bit slower than the current 2.3 release.
>
> You sure about that?  I'd guess that 1.5.2 was faster for some things,
> slower for others compared to 2.3.

You're probably right. Now that you mention it, I believe
I've heard that 2.0 was the big slowdown, and then it's
improved from there. 2.3, for example, is quite a bit faster
than 2.2.

John Roth
>
> Cheers,
> mwh
>
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