Re: What is Python's answer to Perl 6?

From: Aahz (aahz_at_pythoncraft.com)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: 31 Oct 2004 00:37:37 -0400

In article <10o821fqaiahu31@news.supernews.com>,
John Roth <newsgroups@jhrothjr.com> wrote:
>
>I suspect that the performance issue is being clouded by the
>reference counting mechanism in CPython. Modern garbage collectors
>are reputedly significantly faster. If Python 3.0 removes reference
>counting it might speed up substantially. Note that IronPython is
>reported to run at the same (or better) speed as CPython, even
>though the CLR is not optimized for running scripting languages.

IronPython also doesn't have to worry about random C libraries. That's
one reason why refcounting works better in CPython. 

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