Python Speed Question and Opinion

Irmen de Jong irmen at -nospam-remove-this-xs4all.nl
Sat Jun 5 13:13:06 EDT 2004


djw wrote:

>> http://www.razorvine.net/python/PythonSpeed

> I don't think I agree with your statement at the bottom that says "if 
> all else fails, try Psyco." Since using Psyco is so effortless and may 
> produce dramatic speedups, I would recommend to people that they try it 
> before resorting to writing extension modules in C/C++. Sending people 
> that are new to Python down the extension writing path may turn them off 
> to Python altogether.

I think you're right. So I changed the order a bit and removed the
"if all else fails" :)

Feel free to add other suggestions to the page. It's a WIKI page after all.

--Irmen



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