OpenEuphoria

Re: Benchmark Python vs Euphoria.

• Posted by Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> Jan 05, 2006
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Jean-Francois Soucaille wrote:
> 
> 
>  From time to time I have the stupid idea to benchmark (from a numeric
>  standpoint)
> euphoria against Python. 
> I have done that recently with a simple program computing an exponential with
> a Taylor development.
> That time I have even used a pseudo JIT fot Python named Psyco. 
> And the answer is.....Python sucks. I'm not against Python but for the use I
> do of scripting (interpreted) languages 
> I appreciate a resonnable speed for computing. Up to now I haven't fond
> anything
> faster than Euphoria. I'm not talking about 
> compiled ones of course.
> 
> That's all folks.

It would be nice to see some actual numbers, if you could provide some :)

Regards, Alexander Toresson