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From:Martin Baute
Date:21 Aug 2000 at 15:38:34
Subject:Re: AMIOPEN: Amiga python

Hello Marc

On 20-Aug-00, you wrote:

> I think that python will make an ideal replacement for ARexx on the
> new Amiga.

The "official" replacement will probably the announced SHEEP.
However it�s nice to have Python around.

> Two things were slightly disappointing to me about this port. First,
> my python.00 executable is 551388 bytes, versus 319980 for the
> stripped linux executable.

> than Intel machine language. Second is that the VP version is
> somewhat slower. My Amiga SDK benchmarks at 3360.77 pystones/second,
> while the host linux system benchmarks at 5076.14 pystones/second.

Hosted versus native. Not very surprising.

Regards


Martin Baute mailto:solar@baud.de http://www.baud.de/solar/
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