Python versus Perl ?

[Irmen de Jong]

m wrote:
> 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?

Why do you care?
Have you read http://www.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed ?

--Irmen