newbie IronPython compiled scripts speed question

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On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:59:34 +0300, Lawrence Oluyede <rhymes at myself.com>  
wrote:
> I don't know what you heard but IronPython generates IL code which
> happens to be the bytecode of the CLR (the runtime of .NET). So you are
> not generating "native" stuff but a PE executable wrapping the .NET
> stuff in it.

not native... I see.
thanks for the info, so there's not much point in turning to
IronPython for speeding up scripts yet...