[Info-vax] Python for x86?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-04-13, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 4/13/2023 6:44 AM, Neil Rieck wrote:
>> And although python is used to do a lot of admin scripting on Linux
>> platforms (tools like "yum" and "firewall-cmd" are written in
>> python), python does a really good job supporting server-side
>> scripting under apache cgi-bin. I don't know how this is possible,
>> but python programs are faster than compiled DEC-BASIC programs
>> started via apache.
>
> That is unexpected. If both are run via CGI mechanism then
> script activation should be the same. And compiled code should be
> faster than interpreted code. And if libraries used are also the
> same then it is a mystery.
>

Maybe. Maybe not. Based purely on some comments from people here who
know/use DEC Basic, it's quite possible that DEC Basic has a RTL which
imposes some serious runtime overheads.

Perhaps for one of your many articles (:-)), you may be interested in
coding the same set of problems in the various DEC languages and seeing
what the performance differences are.

Simon.

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