What is Python's answer to Perl 6?

[Aahz]

In article <10o821fqaiahu31 at news.supernews.com>,
John Roth <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote:
>
>I suspect that the performance issue is being clouded by the
>reference counting mechanism in CPython. Modern garbage collectors
>are reputedly significantly faster. If Python 3.0 removes reference
>counting it might speed up substantially. Note that IronPython is
>reported to run at the same (or better) speed as CPython, even
>though the CLR is not optimized for running scripting languages.

IronPython also doesn't have to worry about random C libraries.  That's
one reason why refcounting works better in CPython.
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