why python is slower than java?

[Israel Raj T]

Maurice LING <mauriceling at acm.org> writes:

> This may be a dumb thing to ask, but besides the penalty for dynamic
> typing, is there any other real reasons that Python is slower than
> Java?

Do you have any data to support this ?
On Windows XP, Windows NT and Linux (Gentoo ), I have consistently
found python apps using wxpython to be far faster to load
and to be far more responsive than Java apps.