Python versus Perl ?

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Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> if you use Python mostly to write empty loops, your programming license
> should be revoked.  the benchmark author seems to have realized that, as
> can be seen from the "it's dead" paragraph at the top of the page, which
> makes me wonder why you posted this link...
> 
> </F> 

i was trying to decide whether i needed perl or python for some work 
that i had to get done and was seeing which was faster. and came across 
this link which i tht was pertinent. is python as fast as perl for the 
nonempty loops that the author wrote?