Python future performance and speed

[Jeremy Sanders]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 11:23:44 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Sometimes that happens.  Other times it really is too slow, and I rewrite
> it in C.  Other times Python is too bloated and I can't even consider
> using it; for example, in anything that users need to download without a
> big fuss.

Most Linux distributions include python as standard, so the users only
need to download your script (which will probably be smaller than the
equivalent C code).

Jeremy