Using Python for programming algorithms

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

sturlamolden a écrit :
> On May 19, 10:42 pm, "bruno.desthuilli... at gmail.com"
> <bruno.desthuilli... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well... They do - they are called 'C compilers' !-) As Roel Schroven
>> mentioned - and he is at least partially right on this point - C has
>> been designed to make optimizing C compiler not to hairy to write.
> 
> C has proven very difficult to optimize, particularly because pointer
> aliasing prevents efficient register allocation.

Does this compare to optimizing something like Python ? (serious 
question, but I think I already know part of the answer).