Performance java vs. python

[CTO]

> Ah! I should have been careful before asking such "general" question about performance. I agree with you. But mine was more academic. I should not given a specific example.
>
> AFAIK, for java on the client side, JVM performance is one of the critical things which has been tuned to death until now. Even Google's Android which uses Java for the programming
> language uses a Dalvik Virtual machine which was spefically designed to handle low CPU, memory and power environments. Similarly, Python can also be used to program on Nokia phones etc. > Of course programming natively (C/C++) would make a difference in environments where CPU, memory and power are a big constraint. Given the context, do we know how Python compares with
> Java or even native programming. What is the overhead of  Python's interpreted code ? Some standard benchmarks would help compare apples to apples  though it may not help deciding which > framework to choose.
>
> -mohan

Danger, will robinson- the dalvik jvm has precisely nothing to do with
standard
java. It uses the same syntax but otherwise operates entirely
differently. Don't
assume you'll get the same performance characteristics out of the
other common
jvm's.

Geremy Condra