Python is slow

Arnaud Delobelle arnodel at googlemail.com
Thu May 22 14:18:13 EDT 2008


cm_gui <cmgui2 at gmail.com> writes:

> 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're slow too. And your mum.  And your car is so slow, it gets
overtaken by slugs.  Whereas I'm really fast, I'll race you to the end
of the street and we'll see who wins.  My mum's fast, my car's got a
super fast noisy exhaust.

So there.

-- 
Arnaud



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