Using Python for programming algorithms

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Tue May 20 17:14:38 EDT 2008


In article <g0uk74$7a4$1 at solaris.cc.vt.edu>, brad  <byte8bits at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Run time is not important until you are asked to scale to millions
>or billions of users or computations or large data sets. I've seen
>this first hand. Getting results back the same day or sooner may be
>important. In cases such as this, I use C or C++... nothing else will
>do. Nothing else is as fast. Although I always keep a py version around
>for testing and for smaller tasks. Don't get me wrong, I love Python,
>but there are times when nothing, but pure, hard speed will do.

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