Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 68.12.185.136]
on October 14, 2007 06:34 AM
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Python hasn't reached the maturity level that Java has, as Python has no virtual machine and is interpreted at all times (like Java circa 1998).
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Trolling? Or just ill-informed? Or both?
Python most certainly does use a virtual machine, and has since 1991... 4 years before your "more mature" Java was born. It also does JIT compilation via psyco. Dynamic typing, while hugely powerful, and a boon to programmer productivity, does come at a cost in cpu performance. Python does, however, have the ponderous JVM beat hands down for memory efficiency... if "efficiency" is even a word that can be applied to the JVM's memory consumption.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 68.12.185.136] on October 14, 2007 06:34 AMPython hasn't reached the maturity level that Java has, as Python has no virtual machine and is interpreted at all times (like Java circa 1998).
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Trolling? Or just ill-informed? Or both?
Python most certainly does use a virtual machine, and has since 1991... 4 years before your "more mature" Java was born. It also does JIT compilation via psyco. Dynamic typing, while hugely powerful, and a boon to programmer productivity, does come at a cost in cpu performance. Python does, however, have the ponderous JVM beat hands down for memory efficiency... if "efficiency" is even a word that can be applied to the JVM's memory consumption.
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