[gopher] Re: Pygopherd nearing gopherd replacement

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 10:47  PM, Timm Murray wrote:

> Python saves the compiled output of the script after the first run, so 
> new =
> runs of the=20
> script should run at near native speeds anyway.

Well, yes and no.  Python does not save native machine code, it saves 
Python bytecode -- similar in concept to Java bytecode.  This still gets 
interpreted -- it just saves the parsing step, which generally only 
reduces program load time.

This can be a win if you're on a really slow machine or if you're 
invoking it a LOT (ie, a CGI), but otherwise the difference is generally 
unnoticeable.

-- John