Python is far from a top performer according to benchmark test...

[Robin Becker]

In article <6ee58e07.0401120542.5d79090d at posting.google.com>, Lothar
Scholz <llothar at web.de> writes
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>Fortran does not have this problem so a lot of optimizations can be
>done and values can be hold in registers for a much longer time,
>resulting in much greater speed.
>

I'm not sure I agree with the above. Aliases could certainly occur in
fortran 77, I haven't used 90 so can't say for sure.
>Remember that on supercomputers a 25% spped enhancement (which a good
>fortran compiler is faster then C) can mean a few million dollars of
>saved hardware costs. The coding time is not importing compared to the
>running time. So real hard numerics are always done in Fortran.

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Robin Becker