why python is slower than java?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <pan.2004.11.05.09.23.39.248718 at yahoo.com>,
John Doe  <atterdan at yahoo.com> wrote:
			.
			.
			.
>Operating Systems. Some time in 1999 (I think) IBM developed a jit or
>Just In Time compiler for Java (Apple invented the JIT concept earlier to
>make 68000 code work on their new line of PowerPC Macs). 
			.
			.
			.
John Aycock traces the technique back at least to 1960 <URL:
http://user.it.uu.se/~kostis/Teaching/KT2-04/jit_survey.pdf >.