Re: [pygame] Python and Speed

[Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Mallett wrote:
> I see the 
> difficulty in speeding it up, but it seems like it can't be that 
> incredibly hard, and I expect that already there are modifications that 
> could be done to Python that simply haven't been.

There are an extremely large number of modifications
that could be made to Python. Only a very small number
of them will result in any improvement, and of those,
all the easy-to-find ones have already been found.

If you want to refute that, you're going to have to
come up with an actual, specific proposal, preferably
in the form of a code patch together with a benchmark
that demonstrates the improvement. If you can't
do that, you're not really in a position to make
statements like "it can't be that hard".

If wishing could make it so, Python would already
be blazingly fast!

--
Greg