Template Metaprogramming Made Easy (Huh?)

[language_fan]

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:18:58 -0400, #ponce thusly wrote:

> See python internal objects size :
> http://www.codexon.com/posts/memory-size-of-python-objects Everything
> takes 4x the memory it would take in D. Each field access seems to be a
> lookup into a hashmap. This is plain ugly.

Python is not the only language running on a VM, you know. Your 
comparison would be fairer if you happened to choose a statically typed 
language such as Java, which is a bit more performance oriented. If you 
have time, you can try to build a python compiler that compiles to native 
code *without* resorting to damn slow hashmaps.