Python's Performance

[bruno modulix]

Alex Stapleton wrote:
> 
> On 9 Oct 2005, at 19:04, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> 
> 
>> Laszlo Zsolt Nagy a écrit :
(snip)
>>> Do you want to know how many internal string operations are done  inside
>>> the Python interpreter? I believe it is not a useful information.  There
>>> are benchmarks testing the *real performance* of Python.
>>>
>>> For example: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5602
>>>
>>
>> A benchmark stating that Python is interpreted is bullshit.
>>
> Except it is interpreted. What is your point?

Nope. It's byte-compiled, just like Java. What do you think those .pyc
files are exactly ?

-- 
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"