Python's Performance

[Alex Stapleton]

On 9 Oct 2005, at 19:04, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:


> Laszlo Zsolt Nagy a écrit :
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>> Dave wrote:
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>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I would like to gather some information on Python's runtime
>>> performance. As far as I understand, it deals with a lot of string
>>> objects. Does it require a lot string processing during program
>>> execution? How does it handle such time-consuming operations? Is  
>>> there
>>> a way to find out how many string operations (perhaps in the
>>> underlying system) ) it does during program execution?
>>>
>>>
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>> 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.
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>> For example: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5602
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> A benchmark stating that Python is interpreted is bullshit.
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Except it is interpreted. What is your point?

Python != C