ANN: Dogelog Runtime, Prolog to the Moon (2021)

[Mostowski Collapse]

Oops "speed did never hurt anybody". Don't be
evil, I am talking about unarmed drones.

See also:

Drone Programming With Python Course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmEcyQnfpDA

Mostowski Collapse schrieb:
> I am not testing this use-case. But a related
> use-case might highlight why speed did never
> hurt anybody.
> 
> Lets say you program a flying drone with Python,
> and the measurement is from the drone sensor
> and communication systems.
> 
> Lets say you are using the idle time between
> measurements for some complex planning. It
> is then not true that you have anyway
> 
> to wait for the measurement.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> BTW: If somebody knows another Python implementation
> I am happy to test this implementation as well.
> I am assuming that the standard Python python.exe
> 
> I tested amounts to CPython? Not sure. And the
> GraalVM is practically the same as JPython? Not
> sure either.
> 
>> Opinion:   Anyone who is counting on Python for truly fast compute 
>> speed is probably using Python for the wrong purpose. Here, we use 
>> Python to control Test Equipment, to set up the equipment and ask for 
>> a measurement, get it, and proceed to the next measurement; and at the 
>> end produce a nice formatted report. If we wrote the test script in C 
>> or Rust or whatever it could not run substantially faster because it 
>> is communicating with the test equipment, setting it up and waiting 
>> for responses, and that is where the vast majority of the time goes. 
>> Especially if the measurement result requires averaging it can take a 
>> while.  In my opinion this is an ideal use for Python, not just 
>> because the speed of Python is not important, but also because we can 
>> easily find people who know Python, who like coding in Python, and 
>> will join the company to program in Python ... and stay with us.
>> --- Joseph S.
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