RAD with Python

[John J. Lee]

John <john.thingstad at chello.no> writes:

> On 12 Sep 2003 06:09:02 -0700, Ubaidullah Nubar
> <ubaidullahnubar at hotmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> 4.
> Python is appox 400 times slower than C.
[...]

Maybe this was intended to be a silly number, but: this means very
little.  The degree of slowdown is hugely variable from one domain to
the next, and from one program to the next, and I've never heard
anyone else quote an indicative figure anywhere near that high.


John