Python too slow?

[Ed Jensen]

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).

Wow, this is pretty misleading.

Java is, indeed, compiled to bytecode; however, modern JVMs typically
compile the bytecode to native code and then execute the native code.

CPython strictly interprets bytecode; it does not compile the
bytecode to native code.