Python is slow

Mark Tarver dr.mtarver at ukonline.co.uk
Sun Jun 8 05:57:45 EDT 2008


On 22 May, 17:14, cm_gui <cmg... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Python is slow.    Almost all of the web applications written in
> Python are slow.   Zope/Plone is slow, sloow, so very slooow.  Even
> Google Apps is not faster.   Neither is Youtube.
> Facebook and Wikipedia (Mediawiki), written in PHP, are so much faster
> than Python.
> Okay, they probably use caching or some code compilation -- but Google
> Apps and those Zope sites probably also use caching.
>
> I've yet to see a web application written in Python which is really
> fast.

You might like to look at Norvig's analysis which supports your view
about Python being slow.

http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html

Mark




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