Could Python supplant Java?

[d2002xx]

> What you mean by "slowest" -- runtime or compile time. I remember
> the best C/C++ compilers from the TopSpeed: they had very slow
> compile time, but at the runtime they are still fastest and also
> provides smallest binaries.

Compile time, of course. Especially when compiling with -O3, I
remember that it's because the inline optimizator that g++ used is
older than what gcc uses.