WHY is python slow?

[Charles Krieg]

Could be due to improved reflection performance.  As far as I know, Hotspot
isn't a JIT compiler, just a faster VM.  Either way, that's very good news!



"D-Man" <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote in message
news:mailman.991931952.3023.python-list at python.org...
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:34:09PM +0000, Mitchell Morris wrote:
> | As a single point of data, may I present the language-specific pages
from
> ...
> | if-you'd-only-claimed-Jython-was-slow-ly y'rs,
>
> Check the list archives from the jython-users list.  Not too long ago
> Finn Bock posted a message that someone sent him.  The other person
> had a beta release of jdk1.4 and using pystong Jython came out well
> ahead of CPython.  A hypothesis thinks that the hotspot JIT is getting
> better.
>
> -D
>
>