Mark Shannon writes: > > > Neal Becker wrote: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-08/msg00552.html > > > Being famous does not necessarily make you right.
No, but being a genius sure helps you beat the odds. > OS kernels are pretty atypical software, > even if Linus is right about Linux, it doesn't apply to Python. Well, actually he was writing about GCC.... > I have empirical evidence, not opinion, that PyPy and my own HotPy > are a *lot* faster (x5 or better) on Unladen Swallow's gcbench benchmark > (which stresses the memory management subsystem). You're missing Linus's point, I think. Linus did *not* claim that it's impossible to write a fast *GC*. He claimed that it's hard to write a fast *program* that uses GC for memory management. A benchmark that stresses *only* the memory management system is unlikely to impress him. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
