Python too slow?

George Sakkis george.sakkis at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 14:00:32 EST 2008


On Jan 10, 3:37 am, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

> I fail to see how the existence of JIT compilers in some Java VM changes
> anything to the fact that both Java (by language specification) and
> CPython use the byte-code/VM scheme.

Because these "some Java VMs" with JIT compilers are the de facto
standard used by millions; the spec is pretty much irrelevant (unless
you're a compiler writer or language theorist).

George



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