Python Speed Question and Opinion

[A. Lloyd Flanagan]

Irmen de Jong <irmen at -nospam-remove-this-xs4all.nl> wrote in message news:<40c1e793$0$563$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl>...
> Maboroshi wrote:
> 
> 
> > In my opinion  Python is the best language there is and I love it. The
> > reason for me asking these questions was because I saw a lot of people
> > trying to compare python to C and I had to find out what the big deal was
> > and why C would be a faster language - I like to know how things work -
> 
> 
> I have taken the liberty of taking a few of the comments made
> in this thread and writing them down here:
> http://www.razorvine.net/python/PythonSpeed
> I've added a few other things related to Python's performance,
> such as a short reference to Psyco.
> 
> 
> --Irmen de Jong.

Nice page.  May I suggest you link into the "official" python wiki at
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/?  I'd like to see a lot more
contribution to that one.