Sigh, yet another silly loop speed test. These are completely irrelevant to real world application performance.
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Originally Posted by chaley
Rewriting calibre in C++ would be a multi-person-year effort. In the end, we would have something that might or might not be appreciably faster/QUOTE]
Look here at a comparision between the language Python and Cobra.
The result is devastating.
http://cobra-language.com/forums/vie...2&hilit=python
Here you see that in some cases Cobra can be hundrets of times faster than python.
I don't know both languages, because use exclusively c++, but the comparision between cobra and python, showes me that it could bring a lot of speed to have calibre written in c++, using QT.
python might be suitable for little programs, but calibre has to do a greater job.
And c++ is not always hard to maintain, it depends on the quality of the design. |