Current Fastest Python Implementation?

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Mon Feb 18 03:37:28 EST 2008


samuraisam wrote:
> Has anyone done any recent testing as to which current python
> implementation is the quickest?

Search for a recent thread on CPython and IronPython.


> Perhaps for Django development -
> though the current one certainly is fast (and I doubt micro
> optimizations would make much difference in overall performance).
> Regardless - have those pypy folks made a faster implementation, or
> the jython folks? Or the .NET implementation?

Depends on your use case. Take your application, do some benchmarking and use
the implementation that turns out to be a) most reliable and b) the fastest.

In that order.

Stefan



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