On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Nov 4, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > This is true. Performance is not everything to everyone. Most Bazaar >> users don't care at all; they say things like "who cares about a few >> seconds in bzr log when it gets the merge right almost every time". >> But we don't yet know that most Python core developers will feel the >> same way, and it simply is not appropriate at this point in time to >> dismiss performance concerns with "oh, I'm sure they all can scale." >> > > We're Python programmers. We're used to people telling us our tool is too > slow. We just say it does the job superbly and it's usually fast enough. :) > > - -Barry > I don't agree with completely dismissing performance just because it's Python. Yes, Python is fast enough most of the time, but when it's not we put a lot of effort into making it faster. That's why we have a good collection of modules with C extensions to speed up computationally intensive applications and half a dozen ways of writing said C extensions. I see no excuse to let the fact that it's Python make it acceptable to have an application with otherwise unacceptable performance. -- Cosmin Stejerean http://www.offbytwo.com
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