Is a "real" C-Python possible?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Jack a écrit :
 > Aahz a écrit
>>
>>Could you provide some evidence that Python is slower than Java or PHP?
> 
> 
> I think most Java-Python benchmarks you can find online will indicate
> that Java is a 3-10 times faster. A few here:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-January/125789.html
> http://blog.snaplogic.org/?p=55

This last one points to a funny anthology (year 2k, Python 1.5.2 and 
Java 1.1) piece of a paper (electronic paper of course) if you read past 
the "benchmark" part (which BTW doesn't pretend to be that serious - the 
'do nothing' test is just hilarious). I really like this part (sorry, I 
only kept the titles - but you can have a look at the whole text, url is 
below):

"""
* Unresolved Release-Critical Bugs in Java*
1. Don't Use Swing.
(snip rant about Swing memory leaks, just kept this:)
The AWT does this too, but you could probably write an application that 
ran for longer than 20 minutes using it.

2. Don't allocate memory.
(snip)
3. Don't use java.lang.String.intern
(snip)
4. Don't expect your app to run
(snip)
5. Don't print anything
(snip)
6. Don't write large apps
(snip)
7. Don't write small apps
(snip)
"""

Heck... This sure looks like a very high price to pay wrt/ "raw speed" 
gain !-)

Oh, yes, the url:
http://www.twistedmatrix.com/users/glyph/rant/python-vs-java.html

Yeps, that's it : twisted. No surprise the guy "decided to move Twisted 
Reality to python."

It's really worth reading. While I was by that time a total newbie to 
programming, and will probably never be anything close to the author, it 
looks like we took a similar decision at the same time, and mostly based 
on similar observations : *in practice*, Java sucks big time - when 
Python JustWorks(tm).