My newbie annoyances so far

[John Nagle]

igouy2 at yahoo.com wrote:
> On Apr 27, 9:07 am, John Nagle <n... at animats.com> wrote:
> 
>>The CPython implementation is unreasonably slow compared
>>to good implementations of other dynamic languages such
>>as LISP and JavaScript.
> 
> 
> Why do you say CPython is slower than JavaScript? Please provide
> examples.

    See

	http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/faq.html

Tamarin is a just-in-time compiler for Javascript.

    Franz LISP at one time held the speed record for LISP
implementations, being only slightly slower than C.

    Python is generally considered to be about 60x slower
than C, which is about par for the course for a naive
byte code interpreter.

					John Nagle