Java 20xfaster then Python !!??

[William]

Axel Kowald <kowald at molgen.mpg.de> writes:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I just had a look at these very detailed benchmark tests,
> http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/, and I was surprised to see that
> often java is 20 times faster than python !!
> 
> How can this be? Both languages interprete bytecode. Maybe because
> java has a JIT compiler ??

i think.

> Is there any hope that python might become faster in future releases ?

yes, look at http://psyco.sourceforge.net/

It could be good to test the doug's scripts with python2.3 and psyco,
somebody did-it ?

Don't forget that these kind of scripts are generaly <1% of a
complet application.

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William Dode - http://flibuste.net