Python Speed Question and Opinion

[Aaron Brady]

>
> Anyone who is writing python and has speed of execution as a priority has a 
> screw loose, just as anyone writing assembler and expecting ease of 
> development.
>

http://www.dadgum.com/james/performance.html

The above essay, while dealing with Erlang, does something to dispell the 
myth that performace == assembler.

A sequential-scan in assembler is still a sequential-scan - if you can 
implement, for example, BTrees easily in Python, then on large datasets 
that's a win.

Aaron

http://insom.me.uk/blog/