[Gllug] C/C++ mentor

[Pete Ryland]

On 23/11/06, Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:
> On 22 Nov 2006, Pete Ryland verbalised:
> > Python is certainly a very nice language for quick learning curve and
> > quick development of scripts and the like.  It probably shouldn't be
> > used for very large applications though, as it gets a little java-like
> > upon scaling - large memory footprints, gc gaps, etc.  But then you
> > can code the core of the app in C and wrap it in a python frontend.
>
> You know about PyPy, right? (It doesn't solve that *yet*, but hopefully
> it will in time.)

Looks nice.  I'd be very interested if it did any optimisations on
list/tuple access.  Like converting to C arrays where possible.
Problem is, a lot of python list uses would indeed be best as C linked
lists, and it may be difficult to determine how the python list is
being used.

Pete
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug