Python too slow?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Ross Ridge a écrit :
> 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.

of course it's not "just like" - different languages, different 
byte-codes, different implementations. What is "just like" is the 
byte-code/VM scheme. Thought this was obvious to anyone able to parse a 
simple sentence.

> You're deliberately trying to mislead people into thinking Python performs
> similarily to Java.

I don't know what you're smoking, but you should perhaps stop - because 
this seems  to drive you into paranoïd delirium.