python simply not scaleable enough for google?

sturlamolden sturlamolden at yahoo.no
Sat Nov 14 03:43:19 EST 2009


On 14 Nov, 02:42, Robert Brown <bbr... at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> If you want to know why Python *the language* is slow, look at the Lisp code
> CLPython generates and at the code implementing the run time.  Simple
> operations end up being very expensive.

You can also see this by looking at the C that Cython or Pyrex
generates.

You can also see the dramatic effect by a handful of strategically
placed type declarations.





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