IronPython vs CPython: faster in 1.6 times?

[Stefan Behnel]

Fuzzyman wrote:
> On Feb 5, 7:47 pm, Stefan Behnel <stefan... at behnel.de> wrote:
>> bearophileH... at lycos.com schrieb:
>>
>>> Mike C. Fletcher:
>>>> Not sure if Mono also provides a speedup.
>>> There is a set of good benchmarks here, the answer is negative:
>>> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang...
>> This doesn't look like Mono to me:
>>
>>        IronPython1.1 (1.1) on .NET 2.0.50727.42
> 
> 
> Running on Debian? Fairly unlikely. :-)

Why? Wasn't .NET supposed to be platform independent code and all that? ;)

Stefan