Python is faster than C

[Daniel Dittmar]

Matthias wrote:
> That's not a rhetorical question: Why is it that "simplicity of the
> Python VM is an important goal"?

Replace 'simplicity' with 'portability'. This is especially true for JIT
compilers, which are not only complex, but are unportable by design.

> I would guess that overall it pays
> to have a more complex language implementation and be rewarded by
> simpler user code: For any decent language there's much more user code
> out there than language implementation code.

The question is not 'does it pay?', the question is 'who pays?'.

Daniel