How does Python compare to ?

[Thomas Wouters]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 10:36:00PM +0000, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu wrote:
> |> But it has to be partly the interpreter too.

> Good grief - does it ever.  On my setup at least,
> Python startup is much worse than Perl.

>     echo 'print "hi"' | perl
>     echo 'print "hi"' | python

>     In the same interval, python does some 196 milliseconds worth
>     of stuff, including 52 open attempts, 34 stat attempts, 67
>     sigaction calls, 12 fstat's, 20 close's, 27 brk's, ...

Okay, now try it with 'python -S'. This omits the 'site.py' import, which
itself requires a ton of other things. When using '-S', python is
consistently 10msec faster than perl, on my P2-something running Linux.

-- 
Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>

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