RAD with Python

[Gary Herron]

On Friday 12 September 2003 10:35 am, John J. Lee wrote:
> 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.
>

Right.  The figure most often stated seems to be about 50, but as you
say, there is so much variation that any number is nearly useless.

Gary Herron