Speed?

[Rene Pijlman]

EP:
>I previously read some comparisons which did not show Python in a good light 
>in this regard: i.e. Python is slow compared to Perl, C++, Java.

These are usually pure compute benchmarks at the interpreted language
level. In practice I find that my Python programs perform somewhat better
than Java, probably because Python has many libraries implemented in C,
whereas Java has many pure Java libraries.

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René Pijlman