Python is slow

[Eric Wertman]

> if python is such a good programming/scripting language, why can't they
> build a faster interpreter/compiler engine? and beat php and zend.
> to the python team, rebuild your interpreter!

while this is just a boring troll.. it does bring me to a more
interesting point... it would be cool if the interpreter were
multi-threaded to make better use of smp systems.  While you can do
threading, if you really want to drive more than one cpu some forking
is in order.