WHY is python slow?

[D-Man]

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