[Python-Dev] FAT Python (lack of) performance (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Jan 26 08:38:13 EST 2016


On 1/26/2016 12:02 AM, INADA Naoki wrote:

People use same algorithm on every language when compares base language performance [1].

The python code is NOT using the same algorithm. The proof is that the Python function will return the correct value for, say fib(50) while most if not all the other versions will not. The domain of an algorithm is part of what characterizes an algorithm.

-- Terry Jan Reedy



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