Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Python/C/Pascal ... How To Choose ? Date: 10 Nov 2025 21:54:02 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 12 Expires: 1 Jun 2026 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: <10eqid5$3du22$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de tWMFDDR1AD7TExasYwFsUw/LCXYavjGr0o4wUUpOlOiDbO Cancel-Lock: sha1:H8gdxXo160eE0t9Vo7GmrURy9vo= sha256:ZvwD+s7TD5bVmp7L4dYMLLOD6WB2zn3trynlXbsgjpM= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2025 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:77286 "Carlos E.R." wrote or quoted: >My program became faster than the commercial product, several times faster. That's what Phil Katz did with Thom Henderson's ARC. ARC was written in C, but PKARC was written partially in Assembly language and much faster. Katz had a special flair for optimizing code, but he drank so much alcohol that he died in 2000 aged 37.