Had Phyton suggested

[Stefan Axelsson]

In article <ZWuVb.246007$I06.2735974 at attbi_s01>, djw wrote:
> Angry, no. But I don't think your advice is very sound. First, Python 
> "compiles" to bytecodes much the way Java does. If Java does anything 
> different, it is that it can employ a JIT compiler to speed up the 
> execution of the bytecodes. 

And if you are on the i386 platform and download the Psyco
(http://psyco.sourceforge.net) 'JIT' compiler, that difference
vanishes also. And Psyco can actually profile first, then JIT, which
is beyond the Java JIT.

I've used it extensively for a wxPython based project and it works
like a charm, speeding up the 'algorithmic' sections of my code to the
point where I didn't have to consider dropping down to 'C' to get the
responsiveness I needed.

Check it out. I give it two thumbs up.

Stefan,
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Stefan Axelsson                  (email at http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~sax)