why python is slower than java?

[Lonnie Princehouse]

Hehe.  I'm really not trying to start a flame war, honest :P 
I don't even like Java.  

My point was just that it's sort of misleading to say "wxPython is
faster than Swing, therefore Python tends to be faster than Java for
all things".


Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> wrote in message news:<tyffz3j2mi2.fsf at pcepsft001.cern.ch>...
> finite.automaton at gmail.com (Lonnie Princehouse) writes:
> 
> > Yes, wxPython is typically quicker than swing.  It's not fair to use
> > this in a generic Python-vs-Java speed shootout, though, since
> > wxPython is just a wrapper around wxWidgets' C++ code; you're really
> > comparing C++ vs. Java here.
> 
> And Python's list.sort is just a wrapper around C code. So I guess
> that it's not fair to use that, or any other Python built-in function,
> in a Python-vs-X speed shootout. This would mean you can't use Python
> classes in such a shootout either, as type.__new__ and object.__new__
> are both also merely wrappers around C code ... not to mention Python
> dictionaries: wrappers around C code which are used in just about
> every name lookup in Python.
> 
> So, the conclusion is that it's not fair to use Python in a
> Python-vs-X speed shootout. 
> 
> I rather like that conclusion :-)