On Friday 24 September 2004 17:48, John Richard Moser wrote:
>
> I don't know how Python is coded.  It uses 'compiled' .py objects,
> right?  Bytecode interpreters probably wouldn't take as big a hit as
> straight interpreters that process assloads of strings; I may be wrong,
> the interpreters may have char[] arrays in their functions and use tiny,
> rapidly called functions :)
>
I did some parsing in python. Python's string functions are far from optimal. 
Especially when implementing a tokenizer/parser which involves a lot of 
string manipulation.

Paul

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