"Dave Parker" <daveparker at flamingthunder.com> wrote in message news:f6625824-b556-41c2-986e-4b1f32df5434 at n1g2000prb.googlegroups.com... |> 5-10 times faster for what kind of code? | Mostly numerical analysis and CGI scripting. For numerical analysis, a fair comparison is Python with NumPy installed (or the older versions thereof).