Python in game development?

[Christian Tanzer]

Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware.com> wrote:

> > Now that optimization is obvious. My point is that Python favors
> > optimization much more than some of the other languages you
> > benchmarked (C the most obvious case, I don't know about Forth).
> 
> The part i love is where I make a 1 line modification to your optimized
> version (1 to 1.0) so we use floats, and change python to use
> recfib(1476), and we still get the same fast results. 
> (1476 is the best you can do without it just saying "inf").

To be honest, it takes twice as long.

Why not changing 1 to 1L instead of 1.0? Then you can do better than
1476 (10000 takes just a bit more than one second, 10001 gives a `Maximum
recursion depth exceeded' runtime error).

Now do that in C.

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