Uwe Grauer wrote:

>Minutes from Delphi to hours in Python isn't true.
>

In fact I wasn't blaming the interpreter, I was blaming garbage collection.
Garbage collected languages do not allow you to control what you do with
memory. The effect on my app (which is a syntactical analyzer for the
italian language) is an increase in execution time from minutes to
hours. Of course this is an extreme case, as most apps do not need a
500MB in-memory structure, but I find myself on these extreme
situations quite often. :)

> In Python, you would be 5 to 10 times faster then with Pascal, C++.

I think I have found the ultimate answer to this recurring topic: you develop faster in the language you use more often!

Ciao
Giovanni

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