WHY is python slow?

[Alex Martelli]

"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.

I wonder how the IBM JVM does with Jython -- anybody tried it?  I've
only used the Javasoft one, as recommended on the Jython site, but I
hear the IBM one is very speedy...


Alex