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

Sven R. Kunze srkunze at mail.de
Tue Jan 26 12:35:56 EST 2016

I completely agree with INADA.

It's like saying, because a specific crossroad features a higher accident rate, people need to change their driving behavior. No! People won't change and it's not necessary either. The crossroad needs to be changed to be safer.

Same goes for Python. If it's slow using the very same piece of code (even superficially), you better make the language faster. Developers won't change and they won't change their code either. Just not necessary.

Btw. it would be a great feature for Python 3 to be faster than Python 2. I've heard a lot of complaints of the scientific community that Python is slow. Would Python 3 be significantly faster than Python 2, that'll be a huge reason to upgrade (and would create pressure to upgrade libs as well). They are satisfied with Python so far, but would there be a language equally readable/maintainable and 10x faster (of course proven by some weird micro benchmarks - incomprehensible to most nervous subscribers to this list), they would readily switch over. I for one hope that Python itself will be that language in the foreseeable future. This is some sort of marketing but also requires hard facts indeed.

Best, Sven

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