<div dir="ltr">Sorry; having programmed quite a bit in Python, I forgot that it might not be common knowledge. Honestly, my statement was a bit of an over-simplification. It really depends on what you're doing and how well you know the performance bottlenecks, including which libraries you can use to speed things along - but that applies with any language, whether interpreted or compiled. Please remember, I'm not claiming that Python is <i>as fast as</i> C.<div>
<br><div>From <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6964392/speed-comparison-with-project-euler-c-vs-python-vs-erlang-vs-haskell">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6964392/speed-comparison-with-project-euler-c-vs-python-vs-erlang-vs-haskell</a>:<div>
<br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">C: 100%<br>python: 692% (118% with pypy)<br>
erlang: 436% (135% thanks to RichardC)<br>haskell: 1421%</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The general consensus is that, for most purposes(considering the hardware of today), Python isn't too much more resource-hungry than a C program that does the same thing, and is considerably faster than other interpreted languages. Personally, I can see several points in the script he generated those times from(using range() instead of xrange(), etc.) that cause unnecessary CPU usage, so the 692% figure when compared with C isn't quite right.</div>
</div></div><div><br></div><div>With that in mind, you're probably not going to be writing highly optimized programs in Python anyway; that's just not what it was designed for.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 12:13 AM, James Sumners <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><br><br>On Saturday, July 20, 2013, Dustin Strickland wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Ew, Java... How about Python? It's almost as effecient as C code, and has a decent built-in library for threads.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>You're going to have to support at least the first part of that statement with some evidence. <span></span> </div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br>-- <br>James Sumners<br>
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