If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

Isaac Gouy igouy2 at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 23 13:15:00 EDT 2009


On Jul 21, 10:09 pm, Raffael Cavallaro
<raffaelcavall... at pas.espam.s.il.vous.plait.mac.com> wrote:
> On 2009-07-21 19:06:02 -0400, Neil Hodgson
> <nyamatongwe+thun... at gmail.com> said:
>
> >    Python uses native threads.
>
> So it can be teh-slowness on all ur cores!
>
> <http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=nbody〈=all>
>
> The global interpreter lock doesn't help much either.


As you've linked to programs that /have not/ been written to use
threading or multiple cores (look at the "~ CPU Load" column) I get
the feeling I'm missing the joke?






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