Re: Tcl vs. Python
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Re: Tcl vs. Python

From: Kristoffer Lawson <setok@fishpool.com>
Date: Thu Sep 29 2005 - 17:44:33 CEST

Eckhard Lehmann <ecky-l@web.de> wrote:
> Almost every python program I have used so far was really eating up
> heaps of memory and was ridiculously slow (and often full of runtime
> errors, but that's a different thing). Contrahery, *every* Tcl/Tk
> program I have used so far was simple, small, fast and a pleasure to
> work with.

Were they GUI stuff? I can imagine Tk being slower in Python as it goes
through not only Python but Tcl as well. OTOH I don't have any real
experience with the speed of Python, only benchmark results.

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Received on Sat Oct 15 03:53:38 2005