Python too slow?

[Ross Ridge]

Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
> And the reference implementation of Python (CPython) is not 
> interpreted, it's compiled to byte-code, which is then executed by a VM 
> (just like Java).
 
Ed Jensen a écrit :
> Wow, this is pretty misleading.

Bruno Desthuilliers  <bruno.42.desthuilliers at wtf.websiteburo.oops.com> wrote:
>Ho yes ??? Why so, please ? Care to point to anything *wrong* in the 
>above statement ?

Python's byte-code interpreter is not "just like" Java's virtual machine.
You're deliberately trying to mislead people into thinking Python performs
similarily to Java.

					Ross Ridge

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