how fast is Python?

[Robin Becker]

In article <pan.2003.08.28.19.40.59.802803 at virgin.NO_SPAM.net>, Steve
Horsley <steve.horsley1 at virgin.NO_SPAM.net> writes
>On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:00:19 +0000, Andrew Dalke wrote:
>
>
>> Spend a few tens of millions on developing just-in-time compilers
>> and program analysis.  That worked for Java.
>
>Have you heard of Jython - python language running on a java VM? It's kind
>of double interpreted - the python source is converted to JVM bytecode,
>and then the JVM runs it however that JVM runs bytecode. I guess it should
>be many times faster than python because of the JVM performance, and
>wopuld be interested to hear any comparisons.
>
>Steve
>
experience with ReportLab suggests jython can be fairly slow compared to
CPython although it does have advantages.
-- 
Robin Becker