IronPython-0.6 is now available!

[Terry Reedy]

> The good thing about the future stable version of Ironpython, is that
> your code will be able to interoperate with code written in other .NET
>  compliant languages, and its performance will be better than the
> standard implementation.

These are, of course, predictions, not facts.  As to performance: IP ran
some features faster and some slower.  It is possible the the features
tested are a biased sample.  It will be interesting to see the final
result.

In any case, it is standard to do time-consuming numerical computation in
Python with the quasi-standard numerical extensions.  Unless and until the
these are ported to .NET, such programs will not run.  Even when they do,
there is no reason to think that they will be significantly faster.

So some programs may benefit, other may not.

Terry J. Reedy