Python is slow

[inhahe]

I don't get what the issue is between sites that use Python and being slow, 
if there is one, because there's a website online that shows the results of 
a dozen or so benchmarks when comparing any two languages.  Python beats PHP 
in almost all the benchmarks.  (it also beats almost all the other languages 
(they're all scripting languages) in most of the benchmarks, lua being the 
only exception i remember.)

"cm_gui" <cmgui2 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Python is slow.    Almost all of the web applications written in
> Python are slow.   Zope/Plone is slow, sloow, so very slooow.  Even
> Google Apps is not faster.   Neither is Youtube.
> Facebook and Wikipedia (Mediawiki), written in PHP, are so much faster
> than Python.
> Okay, they probably use caching or some code compilation -- but Google
> Apps and those Zope sites probably also use caching.
>
> I've yet to see a web application written in Python which is really
> fast.