Re: Python Worst Practices

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Date	Sun, 1 Mar 2015 13:43:50 +1100
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On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> but overall, I think it's fair to say that IronPython is about 1.8 times the
> speed of CPython.
>
>
>> With any other implementation language, it would have ground to a halt.
>
> That's laughably inaccurate.

I'm sure that Python could have been implemented in FORTRAN without
losing performance. Conversely, I'm sure Python could also have been
implemented on top of BASIC if someone felt like it, though what the
advantages might be I have no idea. But performance is not (or should
not be) the primary reason for choosing a language. Imagine if all
your Python code ran twice as fast (that's slightly better than the
IronPython figure quoted!), but worked only on BSD Unix and Mac OS. Is
that something that'll make a fledgling language succeed? Or would
universality, even at the cost of performance, lead to a greater
userbase and development team, which ultimately would result in far
greater improvements in both functionality and performance?

ChrisA

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Re: Python Worst Practices Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-28 15:33 +0000
  Re: Python Worst Practices BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-02-28 17:55 +0000
    Re: Python Worst Practices Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-28 18:38 +0000
    Re: Python Worst Practices Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-01 13:08 +1100
      Re: Python Worst Practices Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-01 13:43 +1100
      Re: Python Worst Practices BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-03-01 12:47 +0000
      Re: Python Worst Practices Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-03-01 20:37 -0500
      Re: Python Worst Practices MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-03-02 01:59 +0000
      Re: Python Worst Practices Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-01 23:49 -0500
      Re: Python Worst Practices MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-03-02 12:38 +0000
      Re: Python Worst Practices Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-02 08:12 -0500
      Re: Python Worst Practices Jonas Wielicki <jonas@wielicki.name> - 2015-03-06 07:58 +0100
      Re: Python Worst Practices Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-06 21:09 +1100
        Re: Python Worst Practices Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-03-07 16:11 +0100

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