From: Carl Youngblood <carl.youngblood@...>
Date: 2004-06-18T10:04:03+09:00
Subject: Re: the new great computer language shootout

I agree that they really should stick strictly to Python code if they
are comparing languages.  We don't want to know how well C performs
with a Python outer shell, we want to know how well Python performs.

Carl

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:53:24 +0900, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> wrote:
> 
> In article <811f2f1c040617163272c240a9@mail.gmail.com>,
> 
> 
> Michael Campbell  <michael.campbell@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:19:24 +0900, Lennon Day-Reynolds
> ><rcoder@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> To be honest, some of the numbers seem highly suspect to me. For
> >> example, on my P4/Fedora Core 1 box at least, the Sieve of
> >> Eratosthenes example runs 20-30% *faster* in Ruby than it does in
> >> Python, while his dataset shows is taking almost twice as long.
> >
> >Are you using psyco?  As has been mentioned, it looks as if the python
> >stuff has been done using that.
> >
> 
> Isn't psycho kind of a special varient of Python?  Is it fair to compare
> psycho Python in the language shootout (they should probalby use the more
> widely used PythonC).
> 
> Phil
> 
>