Python/Scripting language performance

[Ville Vainio]

Curtis Jensen <cjensen at bioeng.ucsd.edu> wrote in message news:<3CF65A62.2070705 at bioeng.ucsd.edu>...

> I'm looking for an explicit explination of why Scripting languages, 
> specificaly Python, are slow compared to compiled languages.  I've 

Well, obviously looking up a thingie in a string-indexed dictionary is
slower than directly using it with a memory address - byte compiled or
no. I guess that's the main bottleneck.