The Cost of Dynamism (was Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?)

[BartC]

On 21/03/2016 12:08, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 9:15:32 PM UTC-4, BartC wrote:
>>
>> A tokeniser along those lines in Python, with most of the bits filled
>> in, is here:
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/dtM8WnFZ
>>
>
> Bart, we get it: you don't like the trade-offs that Python has made.
...
> You don't like Python.  Can we leave it at that?

On the contrary, I do like it. It's just a shame it's made those 
trade-offs as a bit more speed would have made it more useful to me.

And apart from my personal opinions, if anyone else is engaged in 
implementing any of this stuff, they might be interested in what plain 
byte-code can achieve.

This tests highlights the benefits of an O(1) switch statement. And of 
being able to work with integers, as Python seems to discourage that. 
(It seems silly to have to compare strings because using ints could be 
slower!)

-- 
Bartc