2005/02/06
I regularly read Jonathan Schwartz's weblog. He is President of Sun, but also has other interesting comments on all and sundry. Many people have written off Sun and Solaris saying that the writing is on the wall, but I think that might just be hubris blabbering. Through all this you get a glimpse of the Sun people working away at making their technology as good as they can, while still trying to be 'good citizens' as far as their competitors and customers are concerned. Inspiring stuff.
So what does this have to do with me? I have to upgrade one of my servers, and every now and then I flirt with the idea of trying out a different operating system. It has been running Linux for some years now, and I have no complaints as such. And then all the niftyness of Solaris or a shiny XServer from Apple beckons. And this brings me to the question of how Python runs on those. I know that on my iBook and eMac for example, Python feels a lot more sluggish than on my roughly similarly specced x86 boxes. There must be some reason somewhere, be it compiler issues or some kind of optimisation. Not sure if I am able to find out the nitty-gritty of why. I certainly don't have the time.
And then I have to ask myself, how does Python fare on Solaris x86? Is everything rosy?
