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

[Mark Lawrence]

On 25/03/2016 02:49, Michael Torrie wrote:

>
> I've been trying to follow things on this thread, and I understand a bit
> about Pythonic ideomatic style and I know what Python is really good at
> and some of what it's not so good at, but it seems like one of Bart's
> original contentions was that given a certain problem, coded in a
> non-pythonic way, got slower under Python 3 than it was under Python 2
> (if I recall correctly).  In other words a performance regression.
> Somehow this seems to have gotten lost in the squabble over how one
> should use Python.
>

Python 3 is slower, period.  The devs are trying to grab some of that 
back.  I'd still say that the additions in Python 3, many of which were 
backported to 2.6/7, were worth this regression.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence