[Python-Dev] 2.4 news reaches interesting places (original) (raw)

John J Lee jjl at pobox.com
Sun Dec 12 16:09:57 CET 2004

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

> One thing that bugs me: the article says 3 or 4 times that Python is > slow, each time with a refutation ("but it's so flexible", "but it's > fast enough") but still, they sure seem to harp on the point. This is > a PR issue that Python needs to fight -- any ideas? [...] * Have python.org prominently feature an article of Python's use in high-performance environments. IIRC, somebody wrote a realtime voice over internet system and found that with good design, there was no speed issue. Also, the cellphone apps may make a good example. [...]

IIRC, Alex Martelli mentioned a video application at last year's ACCU / Python UK conference. He said the system never went into production, but it sounded like a good meme from the speed point of view: it triggered surprised and gleeful noises from the mixed Python / C++ / Java audience ;-).

John

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