Re: Misc info for a newbie

[Michael Vanier <mvanier@bbb.caltech.edu>]

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> From: Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de>
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> ddainese@dsi.unive.it writes:
>  > - How the Guile performance compare in respect to other languages such
>  > as Python, perl or plain C?
> 
> startup is, as already said, a poor thing. Runtime speed comparisons
> often lack substance, interpreted python uses to be slower than guile,
> but bytecompiling python is now common practice. Comparing any of 
> the scripters with C is utter pointless. 
> 

As far as I know, python was always byte-compiled.  I believe the same is
true of perl.  Tcl was not originally byte-compiled but now is.

Mike

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Mike Vanier	mvanier@bbb.caltech.edu
Department of Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech 216-76
Will optimize nonlinear functions with complex parameter spaces for food.