Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> writes:
>> Boot speed and perl does not really sound a match either.
>
> Nack. Even following the synthetic benchmarks on
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/, they are quite comparable,
> especially when looking at other candidates:
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=perl&lang2=ruby

For great fun, look at Perl vs. Haskell GHC.

-miles
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